all Python 3xml.etree.ElementTreefunction

xml.etree.ElementTree.XMLID()

parsing

Parses XML from a string and returns a pair: the root and a dict mapping id attribute values to elements.

Syntax

root, ids = ET.XMLID(text, parser=None)

Only an attribute literally named id counts; xml:id or ID are ignored. With duplicate ids the dict silently keeps the last element. It returns a tuple, so root = ET.XMLID(s) gives a tuple, not an element; unpack it.

Examples

import xml.etree.ElementTree as ET
root, ids = ET.XMLID('<a><b id="x">1</b><c id="x">2</c><d ID="y"/></a>')
print(list(ids), ids['x'].tag)  # → ['x'] c

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