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Peter Mortensen
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How tocan I parse XML and get instances of a particular node attribute?

Question and answers are not limited to counting. Reword misleading title introduced in edit #6.
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Mateen Ulhaq
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How to parse XML and countget instances of a particular node attribute?

I have many rows in XML and I'm trying to countget instances of a particular node attribute.

<foo>
   <bar>
      <type foobar="1"/>
      <type foobar="2"/>
   </bar>
</foo>

How cando I access the attributesvalues of the attribute foobar? In this example, I want "1" and "2".

How to parse XML and count instances of a particular node attribute?

I have many rows in XML and I'm trying to count instances of a particular node attribute.

<foo>
   <bar>
      <type foobar="1"/>
      <type foobar="2"/>
   </bar>
</foo>

How can I access the attributes of foobar? In this example, I want "1" and "2".

How to parse XML and get instances of a particular node attribute?

I have many rows in XML and I'm trying to get instances of a particular node attribute.

<foo>
   <bar>
      <type foobar="1"/>
      <type foobar="2"/>
   </bar>
</foo>

How do I access the values of the attribute foobar? In this example, I want "1" and "2".

Shorten.
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Mateen Ulhaq
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I have many rows in a database that contains XML and I'm trying to write a Python script to count instances of a particular node attribute.

My tree looks like:

<foo>
   <bar>
      <type foobar="1"/>
      <type foobar="2"/>
   </bar>
</foo>

How can I access the attributes of foobar? In this example, I want "1" and "2" in the XML using Python?.

I have many rows in a database that contains XML and I'm trying to write a Python script to count instances of a particular node attribute.

My tree looks like:

<foo>
   <bar>
      <type foobar="1"/>
      <type foobar="2"/>
   </bar>
</foo>

How can I access the attributes "1" and "2" in the XML using Python?

I have many rows in XML and I'm trying to count instances of a particular node attribute.

<foo>
   <bar>
      <type foobar="1"/>
      <type foobar="2"/>
   </bar>
</foo>

How can I access the attributes of foobar? In this example, I want "1" and "2".

Edited title to better express question being asked and removed language tag. Improved formatting.
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martineau
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edited for readability
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the Tin Man
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Martin Thoma
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title rephrased to not include superlative, grammar
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Brad Koch
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Post Reopened by daniels, Vlad, mmmmmm, dmeister, Kevin
Change the final question to make it more constructive.
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Post Closed as "not constructive" by Bill the Lizard
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