Bug #1144
lxml not finding elements
Start date:
12/27/2015
Due date:
% Done:
100%
Description
https://answers.splunk.com/answers/337109/extracting-http-served-xml-datascraping-http-provi.html
Sample code:
import lxml.html
from cssselector import CSSSelector
content = """<nutcallstatus>
<!--this is similar to status.xml, but with more values-->
<!--all temperatures are displayed in tenths F, regardless of setting of unit-->
<!--all temperatures sent by browser to unit should be in F. you can send tenths F with a decimal place, ex: 123.5-->
<COOK>
<COOK_NAME>Cook</COOK_NAME>
<COOK_TEMP>695</COOK_TEMP>
<COOK_SET>1000</COOK_SET>
<COOK_STATUS>0</COOK_STATUS>
</COOK>"""
tree = lxml.html.fromstring(content)
selector = CSSSelector("COOK_TEMP")
matches = selector(tree)
print matches
History
#1
Updated by Luke Murphey almost 9 years ago
Updated by - Target version set to 1.2.0
#2
Updated by Luke Murphey almost 9 years ago
It turns out that LXML converts the HTML representation to lowercase. That can be proven by parsing some XML and then calling this:
lxml.etree.tostring(tree)
The output is:
<nutcallstatus>\n <!--this is similar to status.xml, but with more values-->\n <!--all temperatures are displayed in tenths F, regardless of setting of unit-->\n <!--all temperatures sent by browser to unit should be in F. you can send tenths F with a decimal place, ex: 123.5--> \n <cook>\n <cook_name>Cook</cook_name>\n <cook_temp>695</cook_temp>\n <cook_set>1000</cook_set>\n <cook_status>0</cook_status>\n </cook></nutcallstatus>
#3
Updated by Luke Murphey almost 9 years ago
- Status changed from New to Closed
- % Done changed from 0 to 100