python elementtree xpath,Python-ElementTree-无法在元素上使用绝对路径

I'm getting this error in ElementTree when I try to run the code below:

SyntaxError: cannot use absolute path on element

My XML document looks like this:

Code:

import xml.etree.ElementTree as ET

def search():

root = ET.parse(INPUT_FILE_PATH)

for target in root.findall("//Script"):

print target.attrib['name']

print target.findall("//StepText")

I'm on Python 2.6 on Mac. Am I using Xpath syntax wrong?

Basically I want to show every Script elements name attribute if it contains a StepText element with certain text.

解决方案

Turns out I needed to say target.findall(".//StepText"). I guess anything without the '.' is considered an absolute path?

Updated working code:

def search():

root = ET.parse(INPUT_FILE_PATH)

for target in root.findall("//Script"):

stepTexts = target.findall(".//StepText")

for stepText in stepTexts:

if FIND.lower() in stepText.text.lower():

print target.attrib['name'],' -- ',stepText.text