XML Element Extraction using XPath

This function takes an XML string and a tag name as input, and then uses the lxml library's xpath method to extract all matching elements and returns a list containing these elements.

Technology Stack : lxml, XML, XPath

Code Type : XML processing functions

Code Difficulty : Intermediate

                
                    
def extract_elements_from_xml(xml_string, tag_name):
    from lxml import etree
    # Parse the XML string
    root = etree.fromstring(xml_string)
    # Find all elements with the specified tag name
    elements = root.xpath(f"//{tag_name}")
    # Return the elements as a list
    return elements