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Get values from an xml file with python

Context:
I want to obtain information from an xml file. when doing print
"<Element 'vocation' at 0x000001C9C7849040>" I do not want that message to appear but the value
Original file XML:
<?xml version="1.0"?>
<spells>
<instant name="spell 1">
<vocation name="men 50"/>
<vocation name="men 100"/>
</instant>
<instant name="spells 2">
<vocation name="woman 50"/>
<vocation name="woman 100"/>
</instant>
</spells>
python code proposition
import xml.etree.ElementTree as ET
tree = ET.parse('D:\\desktop\\Archivos\\compilaciones\\1.5\\800\\data\\spells\\spells.xml')
root = tree.getroot()
for i in root.findall('instant'):
name_spells = i.get('name')
value_name_vocation = i.find('.//vocation[last()]')
print(name_spells, value_name_vocation)
Output Problem(<Element 'vocation' at 0x000001C9C7849040>)
spells1 <Element 'vocation' at 0x000001C9C7AB9810>
spells2 <Element 'vocation' at 0x000001C9C7849040>
desirable output
spells1 men 100
spells2 woman 100
I was searching and some functions don't work.
.text -> AttributeError: 'NoneType' object has no attribute 'text'
->'NoneType' object has no attribute 'iter'
I am open to using other libraries

Since you have the element object already you just need to get its name from within it. Like you already do with your counter variable i.
import xml.etree.ElementTree as ET
tree = ET.parse('D:\\desktop\\Archivos\\compilaciones\\1.5\\800\\data\\spells\\spells.xml')
root = tree.getroot()
for i in root.findall('instant'):
name_spells = i.get('name')
value_name_vocation = i.find('.//vocation[last()]')
print(name_spells, value_name_vocation.get('name'))

Iterating through xml file

I am trying to get all surnames from xml file, but if I am trying to use find, It throws an exception
TypeError: 'NoneType' object is not iterable
This is my code:
import xml.etree.ElementTree as ET
tree = ET.parse('test.xml')
root = tree.getroot()
for elem in root:
for subelem in elem:
for subsubelem in subelem.find('surname'):
print(subsubelem.text)
When I remove the find('surname') from code, It returning all texts from subsubelements.
This is xml:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<pp:card xmlns:pp="http://xmlns.page.com/path/subpath">
<pp:id>1</pp:id>
<pp:customers>
<pp:customer>
<pp:name>John</pp:name>
<pp:surname>Walker</pp:surname>
<pp:adress>
<pp:street>Walker street</pp:street>
<pp:number>1/1</pp:number>
<pp:state>England</pp:state>
</pp:adress>
<pp:created>2021-03-08Z</pp:created>
</pp:customer>
<pp:customer>
<pp:name>Michael</pp:name>
<pp:surname>Jordan</pp:surname>
<pp:adress>
<pp:street>Jordan street</pp:street>
<pp:number>28</pp:number>
<pp:state>USA</pp:state>
</pp:adress>
<pp:created>2021-03-09Z</pp:created>
</pp:customer>
</pp:customers>
</pp:card>
How should I fix it?

Not really a python person, but should the "find" statement include the "pp:" in its search, such as,
find('pp:surname')
Neither the opening nor closing tags actually match "surname".

Use the namespace when you call findall
import xml.etree.ElementTree as ET
xml = '''<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<pp:card xmlns:pp="http://xmlns.page.com/path/subpath">
<pp:id>1</pp:id>
<pp:customers>
<pp:customer>
<pp:name>John</pp:name>
<pp:surname>Walker</pp:surname>
<pp:adress>
<pp:street>Walker street</pp:street>
<pp:number>1/1</pp:number>
<pp:state>England</pp:state>
</pp:adress>
<pp:created>2021-03-08Z</pp:created>
</pp:customer>
<pp:customer>
<pp:name>Michael</pp:name>
<pp:surname>Jordan</pp:surname>
<pp:adress>
<pp:street>Jordan street</pp:street>
<pp:number>28</pp:number>
<pp:state>USA</pp:state>
</pp:adress>
<pp:created>2021-03-09Z</pp:created>
</pp:customer>
</pp:customers>
</pp:card>'''
ns = {'pp': 'http://xmlns.page.com/path/subpath'}
root = ET.fromstring(xml)
names = [sn.text for sn in root.findall('.//pp:surname', ns)]
print(names)
output
['Walker', 'Jordan']

Python XML findall is returning the wrong thing

I want to read data from an xml file, but its not returning the right thing.
i get only the first of the child nodes instead of all of them
The XML looks something like this:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" ?>
<medicalData>
<pacijent> #patient1
<lbo>12345678901</lbo>
<ime>bob</ime>
<prezime>smith</prezime>
<datumRodj>13.10.1954.</datumRodj>
<pregledi>nema</pregledi>
</pacijent>
<pacijent> #patient2
<lbo>22345678901</lbo>
<ime>bobert</ime>
<prezime>smith</prezime>
<datumRodj>30.03.2003</datumRodj>
<pregledi>nema</pregledi>
</pacijent>
<lekar>
<id>111</id>
<ime>john</ime>
<prezime>doe</prezime>
<spacijalizacija>aaa</spacijalizacija>
</lekar>
</medicalData>
Here, if i search for a patient like:
d = etree.parse("pacijent.xml")
listaPodataka = d.getroot()
pacijenti = {}
p = []
for podatak in listaPodataka.findall('pacijent'):
p.append(podatak)
for pacijent in p:
lbo=pacijent[0].text
ime = pacijent[1].text
prezime = pacijent[2].text
datumRodjenja = pacijent[3].text
pregledi=pacijent[4].text
pacijenti[lbo]=Pacijent(lbo,ime,prezime,datumRodjenja,pregledi)
return pacijenti
it would return patient1 but not patient 2
Any ideas what i am doing wrong? I have tried different solutions but nothing seems to work (from the things i have tried).

Here (56605102.xml is the XML taken from you post)
import xml.etree.ElementTree as ET
root = ET.parse("56605102.xml")
for pacijent in root.findall('pacijent'):
print(pacijent)
for child in pacijent:
print('\t' + child.tag + ':' + child.text)
output
<Element 'pacijent' at 0x108d70d68>
lbo:12345678901
ime:bob
prezime:smith
datumRodj:13.10.1954.
pregledi:nema
<Element 'pacijent' at 0x108f50868>
lbo:22345678901
ime:bobert
prezime:smith
datumRodj:30.03.2003
pregledi:nema

Extracting Child XML using ElementTree ignoring Namespace

I have the following XML that I would like to extract a portion of the child if name matches "Adam"
<data>
<a:config version="1.0" xmlns:a="uri:abc.com/a" xmlns:b="uri:abc.com/b">
<a:xxx config="ABC">
<set>option_on</set>
<location>/123/123</location>
<data>123</data>
</a:xxx>
<a:xxx name="Adam">
<a:yyy value="5555-5555">
<log>true</log>
</a:yyy>
</a:xxx>
<a:xxx name="Lisa">
<a:yyy value="2222-2222">
<log>false</log>
</a:yyy>
</a:xxx>
</a:config>
</data>
I manage to extract the section but it doesn't output the original namespace rather it is showing ns0 and ns1. Below is my code
import xml.etree.ElementTree as ET
tree2 = ET.parse("mycode.xml")
root2= tree2.getroot()
for elem in tree2.iter(tag='{uri:abc.com/a}xxx'):
match = elem.get('name')
if match == "Adam":
bla = ET.dump(elem)
Output as follows: -
<ns0:xxx xmlns:ns0="uri:abc.com/a" name="Adam">
<ns0:yyy value="5555-5555">
<log>true</log>
</ns0:yyy>
</ns0:xxx>
I am hoping to get exactly as what the original document is:-
<a:xxx name="Adam">
<a:yyy value="5555-5555">
<log>true</log>
</a:yyy>
</a:xxx>

Use the register_namespace function.
import xml.etree.ElementTree as ET
tree2 = ET.parse("mycode.xml")
root2 = tree2.getroot()
# Register the 'a' prefix to be used when serializing
ET.register_namespace("a", "uri:abc.com/a")
for elem in tree2.iter(tag='{uri:abc.com/a}xxx'):
match = elem.get('name')
if match == "Adam":
bla = ET.dump(elem)
Output:
<a:xxx xmlns:a="uri:abc.com/a" name="Adam">
<a:yyy value="5555-5555">
<log>true</log>
</a:yyy>
</a:xxx>
This is not the exact output that you asked for. You cannot force ElementTree to omit the namespace declaration (because doing so would make the output ill-formed).

Remove XML node if childnode's childnode contains specific value

I need to filter an XML file for certain values, if the node contains this value, the node should be removed.
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" ?>
<ogr:FeatureCollection
xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
xsi:schemaLocation="http://ogr.maptools.org/ TZwards.xsd"
xmlns:ogr="http://ogr.maptools.org/"
xmlns:gml="http://www.opengis.net/gml">
<gml:boundedBy></gml:boundedBy>
<gml:featureMember>
<ogr:TZwards fid="F0">
<ogr:Region_Nam>TARGET</ogr:Region_Nam>
<ogr:District_N>Kondoa</ogr:District_N>
<ogr:Ward_Name>Bumbuta</ogr:Ward_Name>
</ogr:TZwards>
</gml:featureMember>
<gml:featureMember>
<ogr:TZwards fid="F1">
<ogr:Region_Nam>REMOVE</ogr:Region_Nam>
<ogr:District_N>Kondoa</ogr:District_N>
<ogr:Ward_Name>Pahi</ogr:Ward_Name>
</ogr:TZwards>
</gml:featureMember>
</ogr:FeatureCollection>
The Python script should keep the <gml:featureMember> node if the <ogr:Region_Nam> contains TARGET and remove all other nodes.
from xml.dom import minidom
import xml.etree.ElementTree as ET
tree = ET.parse('input.xml').getroot()
removeList = list()
for child in tree.iter('gml:featureMember'):
if child.tag == 'ogr:TZwards':
name = child.find('ogr:Region_Nam').text
if (name == 'TARGET'):
removeList.append(child)
for tag in removeList:
parent = tree.find('ogr:TZwards')
parent.remove(tag)
out = ET.ElementTree(tree)
out.write(outputfilepath)
Desired output:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" ?>
<ogr:FeatureCollection>
<gml:boundedBy></gml:boundedBy>
<gml:featureMember>
<ogr:TZwards fid="F0">
<ogr:Region_Nam>TARGET</ogr:Region_Nam>
<ogr:District_N>Kondoa</ogr:District_N>
<ogr:Ward_Name>Bumbuta</ogr:Ward_Name>
</ogr:TZwards>
</gml:featureMember>
</ogr:FeatureCollection>
My output still contains all nodes..

You need to declare the namespaces in the python code:
from xml.dom import minidom
import xml.etree.ElementTree as ET
tree = ET.parse('/tmp/input.xml').getroot()
namespaces = {'gml': 'http://www.opengis.net/gml', 'ogr':'http://ogr.maptools.org/'}
for child in tree.findall('gml:featureMember', namespaces=namespaces):
if len(child.find('ogr:TZwards', namespaces=namespaces)):
name = child.find('ogr:TZwards', namespaces=namespaces).find('ogr:Region_Nam', namespaces=namespaces).text
if name != 'TARGET':
tree.remove(child)
out = ET.ElementTree(tree)
out.write("/tmp/out.xml")