Replace value of node using getElementsByTagName

[Ken Starks]

Ouray Viney wrote:
> Xml
> 
> <ib>8.4.27.5</ib>
> 
> python
> 
> from xml.dom import minidom
> xmldoc = minidom.parse('C:\TestProfile.xml')
> xmldoc
> 
> ibNodeList = xmldoc.getElementsByTagName("ib")
> firstChild = xmldoc.firstChild
> 
> for node in xmldoc.getElementsByTagName('ib'):  # visit every node
> <ib>
>     print node.toxml()
>     node.replaceChild("<ib>8.4.27.5</ib>",node)
> 
> Error
> 
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>   File "C:\Python25\Lib\site-packages\pythonwin\pywin\framework
> \scriptutils.py", line 310, in RunScript
>     exec codeObject in __main__.__dict__
>   File "C:\Documents and Settings\vineyo\Desktop\parseXml.py", line
> 17, in <module>
>     node.firstChild.replaceChild("<ib>8.4.27.5</ib>",node.firstChild)
>   File "C:\Python25\lib\xml\dom\minidom.py", line 899, in replaceChild
>     self.nodeName + " nodes do not have children")
> HierarchyRequestErr: #text nodes do not have children
> 
> Question:
> Is there an easy way to replace the node value of <ib>?  Perhaps I am
> trying to use the wrong python XML library?  Any help would be greatly
> appreciated.

I use 4suite myself.

see section 3.2.1 of the manual:

"""
3.2.1 What about getElementsByTagName()?

The getElementsByTagName() method isn't supported, because there are 
better options. In particular, you can just use XPath:

doc.xpath(u"//tagname")

For more possibilities, see getElementsByTagName Alternatives.


"""