Find element by text content with XPath in Python

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Filter xml by text content in Python

Requirements

• Python 2.7 / libxml2 / libxslt
• lxml XML toolkit : pip install lxml

source : https://stackoverflow.com/questions/10836205/find-element-by-text-with-xpath-in-elementtree

data.xml

<root>
    <element>A</element>
    <element>B</element>
</root>

filter.py

import lxml.etree

doc = lxml.etree.parse('data.xml')

print doc.xpath('//element[text()="A"]')[0].text
print doc.xpath('//element[text()="A"]')[0].tag

Result will be :

A
element