parse xml

Mon Oct 3 08:02:19 EDT 2011

Quoting 守株待兔 <1248283536 at qq.com>:
> please click the
> http://www.secinfo.com/d14qfp.q9j.htm
> then ,click the following:
> 44: XML IDEA: Condensed Consolidating Statements of Income XML 
> 5.11M (Details)--R158
> there is the citigroup's annual financial report --statements of 
> income,xml file.
> how can i get a table of statements of income in python ?

Read the document with etree, and either iterate over it or grab the 
required values with xpath.
from lxml import etree
doc = etree.parse(self.rfile)
result = doc.xpath(self._xpath, namespaces=doc.getroot().nsmap)