[BangPypers] [Small Hitch]Minidom and xml parsing.
Venkatraman S
venkat83 at gmail.com
Tue Jul 12 08:58:13 CEST 2011
On Tue, Jul 12, 2011 at 12:20 PM, Subhodip Biswas
<subhodipbiswas at gmail.com>wrote:
>
> I am fairly new to python and i am stuck with a problem.
> What I am trying to do is parse a xml file using minidom. My xml file
> as almost a structure like this :
>
> <someparentabove>
> <parent>
> <child1>
> </child1>
> <child2>
> </child2>
> </parent>
> <anotherparent>
> </anotherparent>
> </someparentabove>
>
> I can get parent along with childs using getElementsByTagName, But is
> there a way I can get only the children (child1 and Child2)?
>
x.getElementsByTagName("parent")[0].childNodes
Btw, you may want to try BeautifulSoup or if you want speed, try :
celementTree.
-V
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