how to open xml files code example

Example 1: Read XML

from bs4 import BeautifulSoup
 
soup = BeautifulSoup(open('W2Testfile.xml', encoding='utf-8'), 'lxml')
 
# Just copy from and doc and lower search or write lower case
sub_id = soup.find('SubmissionId'.lower())
# Tag and text
print(sub_id)
print(sub_id.text)
 
#---| Take out  part eg doc 2,then <find_all> of a tag that there are several of
doc_2 = soup.find('returndata', {'documentcnt': '2'})
dep_detail =  doc_2.find_all('DependentDetail'.lower())
print('-' * 30)
print(dep_detail[0].find('dependentrelationshipcd'))
print(dep_detail[0].find('dependentrelationshipcd').text)

Example 2: how to read an xml file

import xmltodict as xtd
import os

xml_file_content = ""

catalog_dir = os.chdir('directory')
catalog_dir_array = os.listdir(catalog_dir)

if("nameOfFile.xml" in catalog_dir_array):
    catalog_file_content = open("nameOfFile.xml", "r").read()

catalog_file_content_dict = xtd.parse(catalog_file_content)