python批量删除注释,Python脚本从XML文件中删除所有注释

I am trying to build a python script that will take in an XML document and remove all of the comment blocks from it.

I tried something along the lines of:

tree = ElementTree()

tree.parse(file)

commentElements = tree.findall('//comment()')

for element in commentElements:

element.parentNode.remove(element)

Doing this yields a weird error from python: "KeyError: '()'

I know there are ways to easily edit the file using other methods ( like sed ), but I have to do it in a python script.

解决方案

comment() is an XPath node test that is not supported by ElementTree.

You can use comment() with

Here is how you can remove comments with lxml:

from lxml import etree

XML = """

TEXT 1

TEXT 2

"""

tree = etree.fromstring(XML)

comments = tree.xpath('//comment()')

for c in comments:

p = c.getparent()

p.remove(c)

print etree.tostring(tree)

Output:

TEXT 1

TEXT 2