With lxml I try to parse a certain street in a certain stage from an XML file:
part of the XML file:
<jndi_values environment="Ontwikkel" street="str1">
<jndi_value key="ecm-eds-configVersie48str1a" value="eds/config/valstr1a">ONT_Value_3str1a</jndi_value>
<jndi_value key="str1a" value="eds/config/valstr1">ONT_Value_WWW4a</jndi_value>
</jndi_values>
<jndi_values environment="Ontwikkel" street="str2">
<jndi_value key="ecm-eds-configVersie48str2a" value="eds/config/str2a">ONT_Value_str2a</jndi_value>
<jndi_value key="4WWW8str2a" value="eds/config/cW8str2">ONT_Value_4str2a</jndi_value>
</jndi_values>
And I want to find for example environment="Ontwikkel" and street="str2", only those values.
I tried:
only_jndi_values = package_config.findall("jndi_values[@environment='" + current_environment + "' and street='" + current_street + "']/jndi_value")
and
only_jndi_values = package_config.findall("jndi_values[@environment='" + current_environment + "' and @street='" + current_street + "']/jndi_value")
but it throws this invalid predicate error:
File "src/lxml/etree.pyx", line 1553, in lxml.etree._Element.findall
File "src/lxml/_elementpath.py", line 322, in lxml._elementpath.findall
File "src/lxml/_elementpath.py", line 300, in lxml._elementpath.iterfind
File "src/lxml/_elementpath.py", line 283, in lxml._elementpath._build_path_iterator
File "src/lxml/_elementpath.py", line 229, in lxml._elementpath.prepare_predicate
SyntaxError: invalid predicate
How can I evaluate values of 2 attributes with lxml findall()?
.//jndi_values[@environment="Ontwikkel"][@street="str2"]
from lxml import etree
data = '''\
<foo>
<bar>
<jndi_values environment="Ontwikkel" street="str1">
<jndi_value key="ecm-eds-configVersie48str1a" value="eds/config/valstr1a">ONT_Value_3str1a</jndi_value>
<jndi_value key="str1a" value="eds/config/valstr1">ONT_Value_WWW4a</jndi_value>
</jndi_values>
<jndi_values environment="Ontwikkel" street="str2">
<jndi_value key="ecm-eds-configVersie48str2a" value="eds/config/str2a">ONT_Value_str2a</jndi_value>
<jndi_value key="4WWW8str2a" value="eds/config/cW8str2">ONT_Value_4str2a</jndi_value>
</jndi_values>
</bar>
</foo>
'''
environment = "Ontwikkel"
street = "str2"
tree = etree.fromstring(data)
xpath = f'.//jndi_values[@environment="{environment}"][@street="{street}"]'
print(xpath)
for e in tree.findall(xpath):
for s in e.itertext():
print(repr(s))