Access XML element by name

Question

Im using xml.etree.ElementTree to parse my XML data. I'm trying to get the text value of <Name>

This is my code.

for Content in Zone[0]:
    print(Content.find('Name').text)

It is returning as NoneObject

However, I am able to access the Element using

for Content in Zone[0]:
    print(Content[12].text)

I think I might have found the problem as when I print the tags out, it doesn't display Name and instead it displays {http://schemas.datacontract.org/2004/07/}Name. What is the extra data infront of the tag name?

Can you please add the XML content as a code block, not as an image? — OneCricketeer, Oct 07 '16 at 16:03

score 0 · Accepted Answer · edited May 23 '17 at 10:34

Your XML is likely has default namespace -namespace declared with no prefix-. Notice that descendant elements without prefix inherits default namespace implicitly. You can handle default namespace the way you would handle prefixed namespaces; just map a prefix to the namespace URI, and use that prefix along with element name to reference element in namespace :

namespaces = {'d': 'http://schemas.datacontract.org/2004/07/'}
for Content in Zone[0]:
    print(Content.find('d:Name', namespaces).text)

Access XML element by name

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