How to find recursively for a tag of XML using LXML?

Question

<?xml version="1.0" ?> <data>     <test >         <f1 />     </test >     <test2 >         <test3>          <f1 />         </test3>     </test2>     <f1 /> </data> 

Using lxml is it possible to find recursively for tag " f1 "? I tried findall method but it works only for immediate children.

I think I should go for BeautifulSoup for this !!!

Answer 1

You can use XPath to search recursively:

>>> from lxml import etree >>> q = etree.fromstring('<xml><hello>a</hello><x><hello>b</hello></x></xml>') >>> q.findall('hello')     # Tag name, first level only. [<Element hello at 414a7c8>] >>> q.findall('.//hello')  # XPath, recursive. [<Element hello at 414a7c8>, <Element hello at 414a818>]