文件内容
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<bookstore>
<book category="COOKING">
<title lang="en">Everyday Italian</title>
<author>Giada De Laurentiis</author>
<year>2005</year>
<price>30.00</price>
</book>
<book category="CHILDREN">
<title lang="en">Harry Potter</title>
<author>J K. Rowling</author>
<year>2005</year>
<price>29.99</price>
</book>
<book category="WEB">
<title lang="en">XQuery Kick Start</title>
<author>James McGovern</author>
<author>Per Bothner</author>
<author>Kurt Cagle</author>
<author>James Linn</author>
<author>Vaidyanathan Nagarajan</author>
<year>2003</year>
<price>49.99</price>
</book>
<book category="WEB">
<title lang="en">Learning XML</title>
<author>Erik T. Ray</author>
<year>2003</year>
<price>39.95</price>
</book>
</bookstore>
程序代码
from lxml import etree
result = etree.parse("books.xml")
print(etree.tostring(result))
books = result.xpath('//book')
print(type(books))
print(etree.tostring(books[0]))
prices = result.xpath("//price")
for price in prices:
# print(etree.tostring(price))
print(price.text)
# 获取第一本书的价格
print(result.xpath("/bookstore/book[1]/price")[0].text)