This is an XML Untangle Example

UntangleExample.py

#!/usr/bin/env python

"""
Usage examples for untangle
"""

import untangle


def access():
    """
    Shows basic attribute access and node navigation.
    """
    o = untangle.parse('<node id="5">This is cdata<subnode value="abc"/></node>')
    return ("Node id = %s, subnode value = %s" %
            (o.node['id'], o.node.subnode['value']))


def siblings_list():
    """
    Shows child element iteration
    """
    o = untangle.parse('''
        <root>
            <child name="Clint"/>
            <child name="Emily"/>
            <child name="Logan"/>
        </root>
        ''')
    return ','.join([child['name'] for child in o.root.child])

def access_cdata():
    """
    Shows how to handle CDATA elements
    """
    o = untangle.parse('<node id="5">This is cdata<subnode value="abc"/></node>')
    return ("%s" % (o.node.cdata))

examples = [
    ('Access children with parent.children and'
     ' attributes with element["attribute"]', access),
    ('Access siblings as list', siblings_list),
    ('Access cdata text or other data', access_cdata),
]

if __name__ == '__main__':
    for description, func in examples:
        print '=' * 70
        print description
        print '=' * 70
        print
        print func()
        print

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