Python XML parser provides us an easy way to read the XML file and extract useful data. Today we will look into python ElementTree XML API and learn how to use it to parse XML file as well as modify and create XML documents.

Python XML解析器为我们提供了一种读取XML文件并提取有用数据的简便方法。 今天，我们将研究python ElementTree XML API，并学习如何使用它来解析XML文件以及修改和创建XML文档。

Python XML解析器– Py​​thon ElementTree (Python XML Parser – Python ElementTree)

Python ElementTree is one of the most efficient APIs to extract, parse and transform XML data using Python programming language. In this post, we will have good look at how to create, read, parse and update XML data in files and programmatically.

Python ElementTree是使用Python编程语言提取，解析和转换XML数据的最有效API之一。 在本文中，我们将很好地了解如何以编程方式创建，读取，解析和更新文件中的XML数据。

Let’s get started with Python XML parser examples using ElementTree.

让我们开始使用ElementTree的Python XML解析器示例。

Python ElementTree示例 (Python ElementTree examples)

We will start with a very simple example to create an XML file programmatically and then, we will move to more complex files.

我们将从一个非常简单的示例开始，以编程方式创建XML文件，然后，我们将转向更复杂的文件。

创建XML文件 (Creating XML file)

In this example, we will create a new XML file with an element and a sub-element. Let’s get started straight away:

在此示例中，我们将创建一个带有一个元素和一个子元素的新XML文件。 让我们立即开始：

import xml.etree.ElementTree as xmldef createXML(filename):    # Start with the root element    root = xml.Element("users")    children1 = xml.Element("user")    root.append(children1)    tree = xml.ElementTree(root)    with open(filename, "wb") as fh:        tree.write(fh)if __name__ == "__main__":    createXML("test.xml")

Once we run this script, a new file will be created in the same directory with file named as test.xml with following contents:

一旦运行此脚本，将在同一目录中创建一个新文件，名为test.xml文件具有以下内容：

There are two things to notice here:

这里有两件事要注意：

• While writing the file, we used wb mode instead of w as we need to in binary mode.
  写入文件时，我们使用wb模式而不是w因为我们需要以二进制模式 。
• The child user tag is a self-closing tag as we haven’t put any sub-elements in it.
  子用户标签是一个自动关闭的标签，因为我们没有在其中添加任何子元素。

向XML元素添加值 (Adding values to XML elements)

Let’s improve the program by adding values to the XML elements:

让我们通过向XML元素添加值来改进程序：

import xml.etree.ElementTree as xmldef createXML(filename):    # Start with the root element    root = xml.Element("users")    children1 = xml.Element("user")    root.append(children1)    userId1 = xml.SubElement(children1, "id")    userId1.text = "123"    userName1 = xml.SubElement(children1, "name")    userName1.text = "Shubham"    tree = xml.ElementTree(root)    with open(filename, "wb") as fh:        tree.write(fh)if __name__ == "__main__":    createXML("test.xml")

Once we run this script, we will see that new elements are added added with values. Here are the content of the file:

运行此脚本后，我们将看到添加了新元素并添加了值。 这是文件的内容：

        
             
      
       123
              
      
       Shubham
          
     
    

This is perfectly valid XML and all tags are closed. Please note that I formatted the XML myself as the API writes the complete XML in a single fine which is kind a bit, incompleteness!

这是完全有效的XML，并且所有标签均已关闭。 请注意，我自己格式化了XML，因为API一口气写出了完整的XML，这有点不完整！

Now, let’s start with editing files.

现在，让我们开始编辑文件。

编辑XML数据 (Editing XML data)

We will use the same XML file we showed above. We just added some more data into it as:

我们将使用上面显示的相同XML文件。 我们只是向其中添加了更多数据：

        
             
      
       123
              
      
       Shubham
              
      
       0
          
         
             
      
       234
              
      
       Pankaj
              
      
       0
          
         
             
      
       345
              
      
       JournalDev
              
      
       0
          
     
    

Let’s try and update salaries of each user:

让我们尝试更新每个用户的薪水：

import xml.etree.ElementTree as xmldef updateXML(filename):    # Start with the root element    tree = xml.ElementTree(file=filename)    root = tree.getroot()    for salary in root.iter("salary"):        salary.text = '1000'     tree = xml.ElementTree(root)    with open("updated_test.xml", "wb") as fh:        tree.write(fh)if __name__ == "__main__":    updateXML("test.xml")

It is worth noticing that if you try to update an elements value to an integer, it won’t work. You will have to assign a String, like:

值得注意的是，如果您尝试将元素值更新为整数，将无法使用。 您将必须分配一个字符串，例如：

salary.text = '1000'

instead of doing:

而不是做：

salary.text = 1000

Python XML解析器示例 (Python XML Parser Example)

This time, let’s try to parse the XML data present in the file and print the data:

这次，让我们尝试解析文件中存在的XML数据并打印数据：

import xml.etree.cElementTree as xml def parseXML(file_name):    # Parse XML with ElementTree    tree = xml.ElementTree(file=file_name)    print(tree.getroot())    root = tree.getroot()    print("tag=%s, attrib=%s" % (root.tag, root.attrib))     # get the information via the children!    print("-" * 40)    print("Iterating using getchildren()")    print("-" * 40)    users = root.getchildren()    for user in users:        user_children = user.getchildren()        for user_child in user_children:            print("%s=%s" % (user_child.tag, user_child.text)) if __name__ == "__main__":    parseXML("test.xml")

When we run above script, below image shows the output produced.

当我们在脚本上方运行时，下图显示了生成的输出。

In this post, we studied how to extract, parse, and transform XML files. ElementTree is one of the most efficient APIs to do these tasks. I would suggest you try some more examples of XML parsing and modifying different values in XML files.

在本文中，我们研究了如何提取，解析和转换XML文件。 ElementTree是执行这些任务的最高效的API之一。 我建议您尝试更多XML解析和修改XML文件中不同值的示例。

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