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<p>XML isn&#8217;t just a collection of elements; each element can also have its own set of attributes. Once you have a reference to a specific element, you can easily get its attributes as a Python dictionary.
<p>To refresh your memory, here is the first few lines of <code>feed.xml</code>, the XML document we&#8217;re working with.
<pre><code>&lt;feed xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" xml:lang="en">
&lt;title>dive into mark&lt;/title>
&lt;subtitle>currently between addictions&lt;/subtitle>
&lt;id>tag:diveintomark.org,2001-07-29:/&lt;/id>
&lt;updated>2009-03-27T21:56:07Z&lt;/updated>
&lt;link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://diveintomark.org/"/>
&lt;link rel="self" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://diveintomark.org/feed/"/>
...</code></pre>
<pre class=screen>
&lt;feed xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" xml:lang="en">
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# continuing from the previous example
<a><samp class=p>>>> </samp><kbd>root.attrib</kbd> <span>&#x2460;</span></a>
<samp>{'{http://www.w3.org/XML/1998/namespace}lang': 'en'}</samp>
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<a><samp class=p>>>> </samp><kbd>root[3].attrib</kbd> <span>&#x2464;</span></a>
<samp>{}</samp></pre>
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<li>The <code>attrib</code> property is a dictionary of the element&#8217;s attributes. The original markup here was <code>&lt;feed xmlns
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<li>The <code>attrib</code> property is a dictionary of the element&#8217;s attributes. The original markup here was <code>&lt;feed xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" xml:lang="en"></code>. The <code>xml:</code> prefix refers to a built-in namespace that every XML document can use without declaring it.
<li>The fifth child &mdash; <code>[4]</code> in a <code>0</code>-based list &mdash; is the <code>link</code> element.
<li>The <code>link</code> element has three attributes: <code>href</code>, <code>type</code>, and <code>rel</code>.
<li>The fourth child &mdash; <code>[3]</code> in a <code>0</code>-based list &mdash; is the <code>updated</code> element.
<li>The <code>updated</code> element has no attributes, so its <code>.attrib</code> is just an empty dictionary.
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<h2 id=xml-find>Searching For Nodes Within An XML Document</h2>