Re: xml parsing escape characters

[Luis P. Mendes]

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this is the xml document:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<string xmlns="http://www......";>&lt;DataSet&gt;
~   &lt;Order&gt;
~     &lt;Customer&gt;439&lt;/Customer&gt;
        (... others ...)
~   &lt;/Order&gt;
&lt;/DataSet&gt;</string>

When I do:

print xmldoc.toxml()

it prints:
<?xml version="1.0" ?>
<string xmlns="http://www...";>&lt;DataSet&gt;
~  &lt;Order&gt;
~    &lt;Customer&gt;439&lt;/Customer&gt;

~  </Order>
&lt;/DataSet&gt;</string>

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with:   stringNode = xmldoc.childNodes[0]
        print stringNode.toxml()
I get:
<string xmlns="http://www.......";>&lt;DataSet&gt;
~  &lt;Order&gt;
~    &lt;Customer&gt;439&lt;/Customer&gt;

~  </Order>
&lt;/DataSet&gt;</string>
______________________________________________________________________

with:   DataSetNode = stringNode.childNodes[0]
        print DataSetNode.toxml()

I get:

<DataSet>
~  <Order>
~    <Customer>439</Customer>

~  </Order>
</DataSet>
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so far so good, but when I issue the command:

print DataSetNode.childNodes[0]

I get:
IndexError: tuple index out of range

Why the error, and why does it return a tuple?
Why doesn't it return:
        <Order>
            <Customer>439</Customer>

        </Order>
??
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