En Mon, 21 Jan 2008 18:38:48 -0200, Arne <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> escribi�:
> On 21 Jan, 19:15, Bruno Desthuilliers <bruno. > [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> This should not prevent you from learning how to properly parse XML >> (hint: with an XML parser). XML is *not* a line-oriented format, so you >> just can't get nowhere trying to parse it this way. >> >> HTH > > Do you think i should use xml.dom.minidom for this? I've never used > it, and I don't know how to use it, but I've heard it's useful. > > So, I shouldn't use this techinicke (probably wrong spelled) trying to > parse XML? Should i rather use minidom? > > Thank you for for answering, I've learnt a lot from both of you, > Desthuilliers and Genellina! :) > Try ElementTree instead; there is an implementation included with Python 2.5, documentation at http://effbot.org/zone/element.htm and another implementation available at http://codespeak.net/lxml/ import xml.etree.cElementTree as ET import urllib2 rssurl = 'http://www.jabber.org/news/rss.xml' rssdata = urllib2.urlopen(rssurl).read() rssdata = rssdata.replace('&', '&') # ouch! tree = ET.fromstring(rssdata) for item in tree.getiterator('item'): print item.find('link').text print item.find('title').text print item.find('description').text print Note that this particular RSS feed is NOT a well formed XML document - I had to replace the & with & to make the parser happy. -- Gabriel Genellina -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
