How to parse information from children tag using beautifulsoup from xml file?

Question

Here is the layout of the XML file that I am parsing. Whenever an instance occurs when there is a tag like driverslicense with multiple values I am trying to parse them to get the name and text. i.e. {number: 99999999, state: CA}

 """ >  <subjects>

        <subject id="B6">

            <name type="primary">

                <first>Frank </first>

                <middle></middle>

                <last>Darko</last>

            </name>

            <birthdate>10/26/2001</birthdate>

            <age>17</age>

            <ssn>12345679</ssn>

            <description>

                <sex>Male</sex>

            </description>

            <address type="residence" ref="A1"/>

            <driverslicense state="CA" number="99999999"/>

        </subject>

    </subjects>"""

My code is as follows:

dl = bs_data.find("driverslicense")

Output:

<driverslicense number="T64430698" state="VA"/>

I tried do a for loop but then no value is returned as well as .text but this also returns none.

for i in bs_data.find('driverslicense'):
print(i)
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DriverLicense = bs_data.find("driverslicense")
print(DriverLicense.text)

I prefer to get this in dictionary form but if I get this as independent variables like state = CA and number = 99999999 that would work as well.

Answer 1

Just in addition if you like to get a dict with the attributes and values of a tag you could simply call .attrs.

soup.select_one('driverslicense').attrs

Note: In this case it works like charm, in others where you have to pick only specific attributes, the approache from @platipus_on_fire would be ideal or you might have to ignore or drop additional ones

Example

from bs4 import BeautifulSoup
html = '''
<subjects>
    <subject id="B6">
        <name type="primary">
            <first>Frank </first>
            <middle></middle>
            <last>Darko</last>
        </name>
        <birthdate>10/26/2001</birthdate>
        <age>17</age>
        <ssn>12345679</ssn>
        <description>
            <sex>Male</sex>
        </description>
        <address type="residence" ref="A1"/>
        <driverslicense state="CA" number="99999999"/>
    </subject>
</subjects>
'''
soup.select_one('driverslicense').attrs

Output

{'state': 'CA', 'number': '99999999'}