Leonardo lozanne <leoloza...@yahoo.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm getting some XML tags with white spaces from a web service and when I try
> to get them with the getElements ByTagName I'm not able to do so. I'm getting
> an empty list. What I'm doing is:
>
> #XML_response is an xml string
> xml_msg = xml.dom.minidom.parseString(XML_response)
>
> nodes = xml_msg.getElementsByTagName("tag ten") #tag name is "tag ten" with
> a whitespace
>
> It all works fine with tags like tag_seven but NOT for tag names with a white
> space. I've tried some escape chars but it doesnt seems to work.
>
> Does anybody has the escape char sequence I should be using or a work around
> for this? Thanks in advanced for your replies.
As far as I can tell what you are getting is invalid XML.
So I think the answer is "you can't do that".
(cf: http://www.w3.org/TR/2004/REC-xml11-20040204/#NT-NameChar)
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