I have an xml document from the IRS and I’m trying to grab the values of specific tags that interest me. For example, in the following xml data, I’m interested in the value of CYTotalExpensesAmt, which is 12345:

Trying to parse an XML report file in my Gitlab runner and the logic is failing on the line below. Simplified the code so I can post for help.

I have an XML configuration file used by legacy software, which I cannot change or format. The goal is to use Python 3.9 and transform the XML file into a dictionary, using only xml.etree.ElementTree library.

I have an xml file as below:

I’m using python to generate an XML document for a third party. The third party has very precise ideas about how the final xml file shall look like. In my case it wants me to define a namespace in the root tag which is never used in the document. The
ET.ElementTree.write method is quite smart and defines only namespaces in the root tag which are used in the document. Is there a way to overcome its smartness and force it to write another additional namespace in the root tag?

All,
Trying to build a generic utility capable of converting dictionary data into xml.
It uses a config table to define the relationships between XML nodes.
The following script is almost giving me the output. The script is generating First Child Element for each data item, resulting in repetition of that element. Please find my script and actual output below and help me with getting the expected output:

I have an XML file (example shown below) that I want to have in a dataframe in Python. The issue is that the data in the XML has a specific structure and I’m having some trouble with getting the data I need.

I’m trying to sign an XML and verify the signature with the following code:

I was wondering if python’s own Element Tree API has any native equivalent to lxml’s iterchildren and iterdescendants?

Consider this XML: