On 2010-07-27, gerardob <gberbeg...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> I am trying to read an xml using minidom from python library xml.dom
>
> This is the xml file:
> ---------------------------------
><rm_structure>
> <resources>
> <resource>
> AB
> <Capacity>100</Capacity>
> <NumberVirtualClasses>
> 2
> </NumberVirtualClasses>
> </resource>
> </resources>
></rm_structure>
> ----------------------------------
> This is the python code:
> --------------------------------
> from xml.dom import minidom
> doc= minidom.parse("example.xml")
> resources_section = doc.getElementsByTagName('resources')
> list_resources = resources_section[0].getElementsByTagName('resource')
>
> for r in list_resources:
> name = r.childNodes[0].nodeValue
> print name
> print len(name)
> ---------------------------------
> The problem is that the nodeValue stored in the variable 'name' is not "AB"
> (what i want) but instead it is a string that has length of 8 and it seems
> it include the tabs and/or other things.
> How can i get the string "AB" without the other stuff?
Check out the strip member function.
name = r.childNodes[0].nodeValue.strip()
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