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Date: Mon, 23 Jul 2012 10:01:47 -0400
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Subject: Re: How to parse a tag named 'name'?
From: Leonard Richardson <leona...@segfault.org>
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> I don't know if this is the right place to ask for help. If it isn't I
> apologize.
>
> I have this xml,
>
> <project identifier="foo">
> <name>a simple text</name>
> <path>some/path</path>
>    ......
>
> and this is my code
>
>  for project in self.soup.find_all("project"):
>                 projectPath = project.path.string.split('/')
>                 print projectPath[0] #is ok
>                 print project.name.string# error AttributeError: 'str'
> object has no attribute 'string'
>
> I can't parse the tag named 'name'. I have tried the rest of them and they
> work.
> Is this relevant with the fact that bs provided already the name attribute?

Yes. In your example, `project.name` is the string "project". To find
a tag called <name>, use the find() method:

project.find("name")
http://www.crummy.com/software/BeautifulSoup/bs4/doc/#find

Leonard