Thanks for the help This was a SOAP Webservice message. I used httplib instead of SOAPpy or ZSI because SOAPpy cann't do arrays of complex type and ZSI was confusing.
Thanks again "Rodney" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Hi, > > Im a Python newbie and am trying to get the data out of a series of XML > files. So for example the xml is: > > <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?><soap:Envelope > xmlns:soap="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/"; > xmlns:soapenc="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/encoding/"; > xmlns:tns="http://www.ExchangeNetwork.net/schema/v1.0/node.wsdl"; > xmlns:types="http://www.ExchangeNetwork.net/schema/v1.0/node.wsdl"; > xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"; > xmlns:xsd="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema";><soap:Header><wsu:Timestamp > xmlns:wsu="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/ws/2002/07/utility";><wsu:Created>2005-12-28T05:59:38Z</wsu:Created><wsu:Expires>2005-12-28T06:04:38Z</wsu:Expires></wsu:Timestamp></soap:Header><soap:Body > > soap:encodingStyle="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/encoding/";><q1:NodePingResponse > > xmlns:q1="http://www.ExchangeNetwork.net/schema/v1.0/node.xsd";><return > xsi:type="xsd:string">Ready</return></q1:NodePingResponse></soap:Body></soap:Envelope> > > > and I want to get the value from the element "return" which currently has > a value of "Ready". > > Other XML files I want to work with may have several elements I want to > pull data from. This seem relatively easy but I have been reading and > cruising google for hours and none of the examples make any sense. > > I appreciate any code writing help with this. > > > -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
