Overwrite values in XML file with values from another XML file

[Larz60+]

There are two access methods shown below:

1. process_using_defusedxml this uses an etree, but not xml.etree.ElementTree which is very unsafe, venerable to attacks
   

   Note XML is not safe, see: https://docs.python.org/3/library/xml.ht...rabilities use defusedxml instead install with pip: 'pip install defusedxml see GitHub: https://github.com/tiran/defusedxml

   
   
2. process_using_bs4 this is (my) preferred method, and as far as I know safe. It uses BeautifulSoup4 to parse the input.
   

Using the second method, you can be rearrange into a class with appropriate update methods

from pathlib import Path
import os

def process_using_defusedxml(filename):
    import defusedxml.ElementTree as ET

    def tree_walk(root, level=0):
        indent = " " * (4 * level)
        for child in root:
            print(f"\n{indent}Type(child): {type(child)}")
            print(f"\n{indent}tag: {child.tag}")
            print(f"    {indent}attribute: {child.attrib}")
            print(f"    {indent}text: {child.text}")
            level += 1
            tree_walk(child)

    tree = ET.parse(filename)
    root = tree.getroot()

    tree_walk(root)
    
# alternative method using Beautiful Soup
def process_using_bs4(filename):
    from bs4 import BeautifulSoup

    with filename.open('r') as fp:        
        xmldata = fp.read()
        soup = BeautifulSoup(xmldata, 'lxml')
        module = soup.find('module')
        modulename = module.get('bs')
        print(f"Module Name: {modulename}")

        objects = soup.find_all('object')
        print(f"\nobjects:")
        for n, obj in enumerate(objects):
            print(f"\nobject_id: {obj.get('id')} object name: {obj.get('name')}" \
                f" object number: {obj.get('number')}")
            items = obj.find_all('item')
            if items:
                print()
                for n1, item in enumerate(items):
                    if item:
                        print(f"    item number: {n1} name: {item.get('name')} " \
                            f"value: {item.get('value')}")

os.chdir(os.path.abspath(os.path.dirname(__file__)))
filename = Path('.') / 'Mainfile_1.xml'

# process_using_defusedxml(filename)
process_using_bs4(filename)

BeautifulSoup4 (bs4) method results:

Output:
Module Name: Mainfile_1

objects:

object_id: 1000 object name: namex object number: 1

    item number: 0 name: item0 value: 100
    item number: 1 name: item00 value: 100

object_id: 1001 object name: namey object number: 2

    item number: 0 name: item1 value: 100
    item number: 1 name: item00 value: 100

object_id: 1234 object name: name1 object number: 3

    item number: 0 name: item1 value: FAIL
    item number: 1 name: item2 value: 233
    item number: 2 name: item3 value: 233
    item number: 3 name: item4 value: FAIL

object_id: 1238 object name: name2 object number: 4

    item number: 0 name: item8 value: FAIL
    item number: 1 name: item9 value: 233

object_id: 2345 object name: name32 object number: 5

    item number: 0 name: item1 value: 111
    item number: 1 name: item2 value: FAIL

object_id: 2347 object name: name4 object number: 6

    item number: 0 name: item1 value: FAIL
    item number: 1 name: item2 value: FAIL
    item number: 2 name: item3 value: 233
    item number: 3 name: item4 value: FAIL

This should give you something to work with.