Lxml Findall Syntaxerror: Invalid Predicate

I'm trying to find elements in xml using xpath. This is my code: utf8_parser = etree.XMLParser(encoding='utf-8') root = etree.fromstring(someString.encode('utf-8'), parser=utf8_par

Solution 1:

Switching from xpath() to findall() is not a solution. The latter only supports subset of XPath 1.0 expression (compatible to xml.etree.ElementTree's XPath support), and your attempted expression happen to be part of the unsupported subset.

The actual problem is, that root variable already references model element, so you don't need to mention "model" again in your XPath :

somelist = root.xpath("class[*/attributes/attribute/@name='var']/@name")