ergoithz · June 5, 2026 04:55 · ergoithz · Jan 22, 2024 · ecleiths-alt · Jun 5, 2026
diff --git a/xpath_soup.py b/xpath_soup.py
 #!/usr/bin/python
 # -*- coding: utf-8 -*-

 import bs4

 def xpath_soup(element):
    # type: (typing.Union[bs4.element.Tag, bs4.element.NavigableString]) -> str
    """
    Generate xpath from BeautifulSoup4 element.

    :param element: BeautifulSoup4 element.
    :type element: bs4.element.Tag or bs4.element.NavigableString
    :return: xpath as string
    :rtype: str

    Usage
    -----
    >>> import bs4
    >>> html = (
    ...     '<html><head><title>title</title></head>'
    ...     '<body><p>p <i>1</i></p><p>p <i>2</i></p></body></html>'
    ...     )
    >>> soup = bs4.BeautifulSoup(html, 'html.parser')
    >>> xpath_soup(soup.html.body.p.i)
    '/html/body/p[1]/i'

    >>> import bs4
    >>> xml = (
    ...     '<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>'
    ...     '<doc xmlns:ns1="http://localhost/ns1"'
    ...     '     xmlns:ns2="http://localhost/ns2">'
    ...     '<ns1:elm/><ns2:elm/><ns2:elm/></doc>'
    ...     )
    >>> soup = bs4.BeautifulSoup(xml, 'lxml-xml')
    >>> xpath_soup(soup.doc.find('ns2:elm').next_sibling)
    '/doc/ns2:elm[2]'

    """
    components = []
    target = element if element.name else element.parent
    for node in (target, *target.parents)[-2::-1]:  # type: bs4.element.Tag
        tag = '%s:%s' % (node.prefix, node.name) if node.prefix else node.name
        siblings = node.parent.find_all(tag, recursive=False)
        components.append(tag if len(siblings) == 1 else '%s[%d]' % (tag, next(
            index
            for index, sibling in enumerate(siblings, 1)
            if sibling is node
            )))
    return '/%s' % '/'.join(components)


 if __name__ == '__main__':
    import doctest
    doctest.testmod(verbose=True, raise_on_error=True)
	#!/usr/bin/python
	# -- coding: utf-8 --

	import bs4

	def xpath_soup(element):
	# type: (typing.Union[bs4.element.Tag, bs4.element.NavigableString]) -> str
	"""
	Generate xpath from BeautifulSoup4 element.

	:param element: BeautifulSoup4 element.
	:type element: bs4.element.Tag or bs4.element.NavigableString
	:return: xpath as string
	:rtype: str

	Usage
	-----
	>>> import bs4
	>>> html = (
	... '<html><head><title>title</title></head>'
	... '<body><p>p <i>1</i></p><p>p <i>2</i></p></body></html>'
	... )
	>>> soup = bs4.BeautifulSoup(html, 'html.parser')
	>>> xpath_soup(soup.html.body.p.i)
	'/html/body/p[1]/i'

	>>> import bs4
	>>> xml = (
	... '<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>'
	... '<doc xmlns:ns1="http://localhost/ns1"'
	... ' xmlns:ns2="http://localhost/ns2">'
	... '<ns1:elm/><ns2:elm/><ns2:elm/></doc>'
	... )
	>>> soup = bs4.BeautifulSoup(xml, 'lxml-xml')
	>>> xpath_soup(soup.doc.find('ns2:elm').next_sibling)
	'/doc/ns2:elm[2]'

	"""
	components = []
	target = element if element.name else element.parent
	for node in (target, *target.parents)[-2::-1]: # type: bs4.element.Tag
	tag = '%s:%s' % (node.prefix, node.name) if node.prefix else node.name
	siblings = node.parent.find_all(tag, recursive=False)
	components.append(tag if len(siblings) == 1 else '%s[%d]' % (tag, next(
	index
	for index, sibling in enumerate(siblings, 1)
	if sibling is node
	)))
	return '/%s' % '/'.join(components)


	if __name__ == '__main__':
	import doctest
	doctest.testmod(verbose=True, raise_on_error=True)
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