How to handle CDATA in xml parser using ElementTree python?

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I just started python and was trying to parse the xml file using ElementTree. But the problem is I have one tag with CDATA which is removed after tree.write.

So basically I had this tag

<content><![CDATA[eclipse.ver=1&encoding/ <project>=UTF-8${line.sep}]]></content>

which is change to

<content>eclipse.ver=1&encoding/&lt;project&gt;=UTF-8${line.sep}</content>

I tried google it but was not very helpful. So can anyone help me, how can I get exact same content within the tag??

Possible duplicate of stackoverflow.com/questions/174890/… — Zixian Cai
– Zixian Cai, Commented Oct 7, 2016 at 3:43
I think this question is to output the xml file hardcoding the xml tags. But I want to edit my xml file which contains CDATA. — The Red Devil
– The Red Devil, Commented Oct 7, 2016 at 3:51

PRIYAM SHARMA · Accepted Answer · 2018-01-22 18:28:20Z

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from xml.etree.ElementTree import ElementTree
import re
l=[]
tree = ElementTree()
tree.parse("YOURFILE.xml")
root = tree.getroot()

for parent in root.findall('.//content/..'):
    for child in parent.findall("content"):
        if(child.text != None):
            l.append(child.text)

answered Jan 22, 2018 at 18:28

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