Parsing XML (simple)
Thomas Singleton
singleton at skynet.be
Sat Oct 13 17:36:24 EDT 2001
Hello,
I'd like to parse a very simple xml doc which consists of a user/pass
and then a few commands.
Example :
<?xml version="1.0"?>
<commandmail>
<user>test</user>
<pass>password</pass>
<commands>
<command>commande1</command>
<command>commande2</command>
</commands>
</commandmail>
After reading the modules doc and a few usenet posts, i have written a
small python program to echo the values contained between tags, but
i'm having troubles with the commands, only the FIRST one is echoed.
The solution must be pretty simple but i couldn't find it myself.
Any help would be very appreciated !
Thanks in advance
Thomas
Here my program :
import xml.dom.minidom
dom = xml.dom.minidom.parse('test.xml')
def handleCommandMail(commandmail):
print "Start"
handleUserName(commandmail.getElementsByTagName("user")[0])
handlePassword(commandmail.getElementsByTagName("pass")[0])
commands = commandmail.getElementsByTagName("commands")
for command in commands:
handleCommand(command)
print "Done"
def handleCommand(command):
commandline = command.getElementsByTagName("command")[0]
print "Command : ", commandline.firstChild.data.strip()
def handleUserName(username):
print "User : ", username.firstChild.data.strip()
def handlePassword(password):
print "Pass : ", password.firstChild.data.strip()
handleCommandMail(dom)
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