xml.dom.minidom question

[Geiregat Jonas]

I'm using xml.dom.minidom, I get some data by using 
obj.getElementsByTagName("name")[0] then I have an object, but how can I 
get the data between the tags ? I could do .toxml() and then strip it 
away. But is there a better way maybe a function made for it ?
Also is it possible using the xml.dom.minidom module to create modify an 
xml file ?