Trying to get cleaner XML output from a text file

I'm using Python2.5 to try and convert some text files into XML using xml.minidom. I'm currently doing some plays which have a structure like Scene 1 Act 1 blah blah Act2 blah blah Scene 2 Act 1 and so on. I'm trying to turn it into 1 1 2 (or ideally bit I can always come back t

Parsing text

Hi, I'm trying to write a fairly basic text parser to split up scenes and acts in plays to put them into XML. I've managed to get the text split into the blocks of scenes and acts and returned correctly but I'm trying to refine this and get the relevant scene number when the split is made but I kee