Dean Card <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I am using minidom to parse a 20,000 line XML file. I have a few instances > where the number of child nodes of a particular node can be variable in > number. To access them I am doing something like the following... > > xmldoc = minidom.parseString(r) > results = xmldoc.childNodes[0] > > for myNode in results.childNodes[1].childNodes: > do Stuff with myNode... > > problem is I am having a heck of a time trying to access the value of the > node. For instance I get things like this > > <DOM Element: PersonName at 0x8391dac> > <DOM Element: PostalAddress at 0x8391f0c> > <DOM Element: VoiceNumber at 0x842a18c> > <DOM Element: VoiceNumber at 0x842a32c> > <DOM Element: E-mail at 0x842a4cc> > > But I need the values... any help here?
Not sure what you mean by "the values" -- if you mean for example the contents of text data lying under the node, you can access them...: >>> from xml.dom import minidom >>> s='<foo><bar>uno</bar><baz>dos</baz></foo>' >>> xmldoc = minidom.parseString(s) >>> xmldoc.childNodes[0] <DOM Element: foo at 0x81238> >>> xmldoc.childNodes[0].childNodes [<DOM Element: bar at 0x812d8>, <DOM Element: baz at 0x818f0>] >>> for node in xmldoc.childNodes[0].childNodes: print node ... <DOM Element: bar at 0x812d8> <DOM Element: baz at 0x818f0> >>> for node in xmldoc.childNodes[0].childNodes: print node.childNodes[0] ... <DOM Text node "uno"> <DOM Text node "dos"> >>> for node in xmldoc.childNodes[0].childNodes: print node.childNodes[0].data ... uno dos >>> i.e., the text node is the .childNodes[0] (or more elegantly the .firstChild, of course) of the element node containing it, and if you need that text node's text data, that's its .data attribute. If you need something else, I suggest you post a small example (like mine here) with a clear explanation of what exactly it is that you need! Alex -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
