How to access attributes of nodes in xml.minidom

[Ruediger Maehl]

Hello Pythoneers,

although I have tried as much as possible, I couldn't avoid that I now
have to use XML formatted files for different purposes. I just started
using the xml.minidom and I took the example and started to change
it to my needs.

But, how can I access the attributes of a node?

The documentation in the Python Library Reference is fairly short
and I cannot get further. Can anyone please help or point me to a
more extensive documentation?

Many TIA,

Rüdiger

This is my script:

#################
import xml.dom.minidom

document = """\
<slideshow>
  <title attrib="new">Demo slideshow</title>
  <slide>
    <title>Slide title</title>
    <point>This is a demo</point>
    <point>Of a program for processing slides</point>
  </slide>
</slideshow>
"""

def main(dom):
    for node in dom.childNodes:
        print node.tagName
        # That's how I expected it to work, but it doesn't
        for attrib in node.Attributes:
            print attrib

dom = xml.dom.minidom.parseString(document)

main(dom)

dom.unlink()  # minidom only?
#################