RE: element census tool?

import sys

import amara

from amara.lib.util import element_subtree_iter

from amara.xpath.util import abspath

doc = amara.parse(sys.argv[1])

top_prefixes = dict(doc.xml_select('*')[0].xml_namespaces)

for e in element_subtree_iter(doc):

    print abspath(e, prefixes=top_prefixes)

    attrs = dict(e.xml_attributes)

    if attrs:

        print '\t', attrs

python element_census.py http://www.retards.org/library/technology/computers/programming/xml/example-xbel.xml | head

/xbel

            {(None, u'version'): u'1.0'}

/xbel/title

/xbel/folder

            {(None, u'folded'): u'yes'}

/xbel/folder[2]

            {(None, u'folded'): u'yes'}

/xbel/folder[2]/title

/xbel/folder[2]/bookmark

            {(None, u'href'): u'http://www.sciam.com/1999/0599issue/0599bosak.html'}