my XML

<root>
- <Book category="Children"><title>Harry Potter</title> <author>J.K</author> <year>2005</year> <price>29.99</price> </Book>
- <Book category="WEB"><title>Learning XML</title> <author>Erik T. Ray</author> <year>2003</year> <price>39.95</price> </Book>
</root>

I'm using etree in python

import xml.etree.ElementTree as ET
Books = ET.parse('4.xml') #parse the xml file into an elementtre

were the list of elements i would like to receive is

BookInfo = [title,author,year,price]

2) how would it be corect to read the Text in a specific elemnt of the list BookInfo

thanks

1) Try this:

import xml.etree.ElementTree as ETBooks = ET.parse('4.xml') #parse the xml file into an elementtreroot = Books.getroot()for child in root:BookInfo = [child.find('title').text,child.find('author').text,child.find('year').text,child.find('price').text]print (BookInfo)

2)if you can receive the specific element from the list use BookInfo[0] - this is title, BookInfo[1] - author...