DOM question

[Paul Prescod]

Timothy Grant wrote:
> 
> Forgive my XML newbieness, but I'm puzzled by something.
> 
> I have been able to use minidom to read a tree and walk the
> nodes and such, but I can't figure out how to access the
> textual data in a tag. Given the following:
> 
> <tag attribute='test'>This is the text I want</tag>
> 
> I can find the  tag, I can read the attribute, but what minidom
> or dom functions return the contents of the text?

The contents are a node of their own. Get it as the first child node of
the element. It will be a text node with a nodeValue.

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