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A phyton script that completely removes a special block from an XML file. It removes the block if a tag in that block is empty. In this example, it looks for ContextNumber and checks if it is empty.
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import xml.etree.ElementTree as ET | |
zahl = 0 | |
# XML load | |
tree = ET.parse('input.xml') | |
root = tree.getroot() | |
# Removing the part | |
for task in root.findall('./Task'): | |
for transaction in task.findall('./Transaction'): | |
for issue in transaction.findall('./Issue'): | |
contextDatas = issue.find('./ContextDatas') | |
if contextDatas is not None and contextDatas.find('./ContextNumber').text == None: | |
task.remove(transaction) | |
zahl += 1 | |
print(str(zahl) + " Transaction Blocks were removed.") | |
# XML save | |
tree.write('output.xml', encoding='utf-8', xml_declaration=True) |
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