Getting value of a tag inside the same parent tag as a tag with a particular value-CodePudding

The title is a mouthful but describes what I want. I am parsing through an XML with BeautifulSoup. The format of my XML is as follows:

<properties>
    <place>
        <house_id>12345</house_id>
        <appliances>Fridge, Oven</appliances>
        <price>350000</price>
    </place>
    <place>
        <house_id>6789</house_id>
        <appliances>Heater, Microwave, Fridge</appliances>
        <price>870000</price>
    </place>
</properties>

Given a specific value for the house_id tag, I want the text INSIDE of the appliances that correspond to that place. For instance, given 12345, I want to return Fridge, Oven. I have not found an easy way to do this yet with BeautifulSoup.

CodePudding user response：

Based on your input XML, the following XPath expression will produce what you need.

can we use XPath with BeautifulSoup?

XPath

/properties/place[house_id="12345"]/appliances

CodePudding user response：

You can use the General sibling (~) CSS selector:

soup.select_one("house_id:-soup-contains('12345') ~ appliances").text

Or you can find the <house_id> tag containing specific text, and then call find_next() to locate the <appliances> tag:

print(soup.find("house_id", text="12345").find_next("appliances").text)