Finds the first subelement matching *match*. *match* may be a tag name
or a :ref:`path <elementtree-xpath>`. Returns an element instance
or ``None``. *namespaces* is an optional mapping from namespace prefix
- to full name.
+ to full name. Pass ``None`` as prefix to move all unprefixed tag names
+ in the expression into the given namespace.
.. method:: findall(match, namespaces=None)
Finds all matching subelements, by tag name or
:ref:`path <elementtree-xpath>`. Returns a list containing all matching
elements in document order. *namespaces* is an optional mapping from
- namespace prefix to full name.
+ namespace prefix to full name. Pass ``None`` as prefix to move all
+ unprefixed tag names in the expression into the given namespace.
.. method:: findtext(match, default=None, namespaces=None)
of the first matching element, or *default* if no element was found.
Note that if the matching element has no text content an empty string
is returned. *namespaces* is an optional mapping from namespace prefix
- to full name.
+ to full name. Pass ``None`` as prefix to move all unprefixed tag names
+ in the expression into the given namespace.
.. method:: getchildren()
nsmap = {'xx': 'Y'}
self.assertEqual(len(root.findall(".//xx:b", namespaces=nsmap)), 1)
self.assertEqual(len(root.findall(".//b", namespaces=nsmap)), 2)
+ nsmap = {'xx': 'X', None: 'Y'}
+ self.assertEqual(len(root.findall(".//xx:b", namespaces=nsmap)), 2)
+ self.assertEqual(len(root.findall(".//b", namespaces=nsmap)), 1)
+ nsmap = {'xx': 'X', '': 'Y'}
+ with self.assertRaisesRegex(ValueError, 'namespace prefix'):
+ root.findall(".//xx:b", namespaces=nsmap)
def test_bad_find(self):
e = ET.XML(SAMPLE_XML)
)
def xpath_tokenizer(pattern, namespaces=None):
+ default_namespace = namespaces.get(None) if namespaces else None
for token in xpath_tokenizer_re.findall(pattern):
tag = token[1]
- if tag and tag[0] != "{" and ":" in tag:
- try:
+ if tag and tag[0] != "{":
+ if ":" in tag:
prefix, uri = tag.split(":", 1)
- if not namespaces:
- raise KeyError
- yield token[0], "{%s}%s" % (namespaces[prefix], uri)
- except KeyError:
- raise SyntaxError("prefix %r not found in prefix map" % prefix) from None
+ try:
+ if not namespaces:
+ raise KeyError
+ yield token[0], "{%s}%s" % (namespaces[prefix], uri)
+ except KeyError:
+ raise SyntaxError("prefix %r not found in prefix map" % prefix) from None
+ elif default_namespace:
+ yield token[0], "{%s}%s" % (default_namespace, tag)
+ else:
+ yield token
else:
yield token
def iterfind(elem, path, namespaces=None):
# compile selector pattern
- cache_key = (path, None if namespaces is None
- else tuple(sorted(namespaces.items())))
if path[-1:] == "/":
path = path + "*" # implicit all (FIXME: keep this?)
+
+ cache_key = (path,)
+ if namespaces:
+ if '' in namespaces:
+ raise ValueError("empty namespace prefix must be passed as None, not the empty string")
+ if None in namespaces:
+ cache_key += (namespaces[None],) + tuple(sorted(
+ item for item in namespaces.items() if item[0] is not None))
+ else:
+ cache_key += tuple(sorted(namespaces.items()))
+
try:
selector = _cache[cache_key]
except KeyError:
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+Path expressions in xml.etree.ElementTree can now avoid explicit namespace
+prefixes for tags (or the "{namespace}tag" notation) by passing a default
+namespace with a 'None' prefix.