How to parse this simple XML?

I'm trying to parse thhis simple XML:

import xml.etree.ElementTree as ET

data = """
<ns2:Request xmlns:ns2="urn://www.example.com">
    <ns2:User>
        <ns2:Name>John</ns2:Name>
        <ns2:Surname>Snow</ns2:Surname>
        <ns2:Email>[email protected]</ns2:Email>
        <ns2:Birthday>2005-10-23T04:00:00+03:00</ns2:Birthday>
    </ns2:User>
</ns2:Request>
"""

namespaces = {"ns2": "urn://www.example.com"}

xml = ET.fromstring(data)

name = xml.find("ns2:Email", namespaces)  # returns None

Name is read as None. The code above does not works as expected. How to parse single Name, Surname, Email and Birthday fields?

Solution

You'll need to make sure you navigate through the XML hierarchy and use the correct namespace when searching for the elements

# You need to search for the User element first and then get the child elements
user_element = xml.find("ns2:User", namespaces)

name = user_element.find("ns2:Name", namespaces).text
surname = user_element.find("ns2:Surname", namespaces).text
email = user_element.find("ns2:Email", namespaces).text
birthday = user_element.find("ns2:Birthday", namespaces).text

print(f"Name: {name}")
print(f"Surname: {surname}")
print(f"Email: {email}")
print(f"Birthday: {birthday}")

It will output

Name: John
Surname: Snow
Email: [email protected]
Birthday: 2005-10-23T04:00:00+03:00