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  RE:ElementTree Issue - Search and remove elements Tharanga Abeyseela <tharanga.abeyseela@gmail.com> - 2012-10-18 12:05 +1100

#31564 — RE:ElementTree Issue - Search and remove elements

Hi Guys,

Managed to find the element from my xml feed. but i'm having an issue
when trying to remove the parent node and write the xml file.

#!/usr/bin/env python

import elementtree.ElementTree as ET

tree = ET.parse('test.xml')
root = tree.getroot()
walkAll = tree.getiterator()

for elt in walkAll:

        for x in
elt.findall('.//{http://schemas.xxxx.com/xxx/2xx/0x/xx/ixxxx}Rating'):

                if  x.text=="NC":
                        tree.remove(elt)
                else:
                    tree.write('out.xml')

i was trying to remove the element (not the element tag).

why i cant remove the elt element from root if i found the NC matching pattern.

thanks,
tharanga

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