{"id":14498,"date":"2024-03-15T09:16:19","date_gmt":"2024-03-15T09:16:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.silicloud.com\/blog\/how-to-extract-the-content-of-xml-tags-using-python\/"},"modified":"2025-08-06T09:31:36","modified_gmt":"2025-08-06T09:31:36","slug":"how-to-extract-the-content-of-xml-tags-using-python","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.silicloud.com\/blog\/how-to-extract-the-content-of-xml-tags-using-python\/","title":{"rendered":"Python XML Parsing: Extract Tag Content"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In Python, the xml.etree.ElementTree module can be used to extract content from XML tags. Here is a simple example:<\/p>\n<pre class=\"post-pre\"><code><span class=\"hljs-keyword\">import<\/span> xml.etree.ElementTree <span class=\"hljs-keyword\">as<\/span> ET\r\n\r\n<span class=\"hljs-comment\"># \u52a0\u8f7dXML\u6587\u4ef6<\/span>\r\ntree = ET.parse(<span class=\"hljs-string\">'example.xml'<\/span>)\r\nroot = tree.getroot()\r\n\r\n<span class=\"hljs-comment\"># \u63d0\u53d6\u6307\u5b9a\u6807\u7b7e\u7684\u5185\u5bb9<\/span>\r\n<span class=\"hljs-keyword\">for<\/span> child <span class=\"hljs-keyword\">in<\/span> root.<span class=\"hljs-built_in\">iter<\/span>(<span class=\"hljs-string\">'tag_name'<\/span>):\r\n    <span class=\"hljs-built_in\">print<\/span>(child.text)\r\n<\/code><\/pre>\n<p>In the code above, the XML file is first loaded using the ET.parse() method and the root node is retrieved using the getroot() method. Then, the iter() method is used to iterate through the specified tags of the child nodes under the root node, and the text attribute is used to retrieve the text content of the tags.<\/p>\n<p>It is important to note that in the example above, &#8216;tag_name&#8217; should be replaced with the actual tag name, and &#8216;example.xml&#8217; should be replaced with the actual path to the XML file.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In Python, the xml.etree.ElementTree module can be used to extract content from XML tags. 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