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## 前言说明
xml是实现不同语言或程序之间进行数据交换的协议,跟json功能差不多,但要复杂和麻烦一些,是json诞生之前大多数程序的统一接口协议
## xml格式举例
xml的格式如下,就是通过<>节点来区别数据结构的:
```
2
2008
141100
5
2011
59900
69
2011
13600
```
## python中的xml协议
xml协议在各个语言里的都是支持的,在python中用`xml.etree.ElementTree`模块操作xml
### 导入模块遍历
```
import xml.etree.ElementTree as ET
tree = ET.parse("xmltest.xml")
root = tree.getroot()
print(root.tag)
#遍历xml文档
for child in root:
print(child.tag, child.attrib)
for i in child:
print(i.tag,i.text)
#只遍历year 节点
for node in root.iter('year'):
print(node.tag,node.text)
```
修改和删除xml文档内容
~~~
import xml.etree.ElementTree as ET
tree = ET.parse("xmltest.xml")
root = tree.getroot()
#修改
for node in root.iter('year'):
new_year = int(node.text) + 1
node.text = str(new_year)
node.set("updated","yes")
tree.write("xmltest.xml")
#删除node
for country in root.findall('country'):
rank = int(country.find('rank').text)
if rank > 50:
root.remove(country)
tree.write('output.xml')
~~~
自己创建xml文档
~~~
import xml.etree.ElementTree as ET
new_xml = ET.Element("namelist")
name = ET.SubElement(new_xml,"name",attrib={"enrolled":"yes"})
age = ET.SubElement(name,"age",attrib={"checked":"no"})
sex = ET.SubElement(name,"sex")
sex.text = '33'
name2 = ET.SubElement(new_xml,"name",attrib={"enrolled":"no"})
age = ET.SubElement(name2,"age")
age.text = '19'
et = ET.ElementTree(new_xml) #生成文档对象
et.write("test.xml", encoding="utf-8",xml_declaration=True)
ET.dump(new_xml) #打印生成的格式
~~~