[Tutor] Parsing XML with minidom - problem solved

[Ertl, John]

I guess to get to the data I need to look at the childNode of each. 

each.childNodes[0].data

John 
I am trying to use minidom to parse a small XML string.  This is the test
before I move onto bigger and better parsing but I am not getting the
results I expected.

I am trying to make a list of integers from the XML.

def parsexml(xmlstring):
    import xml.dom.minidom

    doc = xml.dom.minidom.parseString(xmlstring)
    print doc.toxml()
    intlist = []
    modlist = doc.getElementsByTagName("element")  
    for each in modlist:
       intlist.append(each.data)

    return intlist

if __name__ == "__main__":
        xml = """<SOAP-ENV:Body>
<xmlString>
<element xsi:type="xsd:integer">1</element>
<element xsi:type="xsd:integer">2</element>
<element xsi:type="xsd:integer">3</element>
<element xsi:type="xsd:integer">4</element>
<element xsi:type="xsd:integer">5</element>
<element xsi:type="xsd:integer">6</element>
<element xsi:type="xsd:integer">7</element>
<element xsi:type="xsd:integer">8</element>
<element xsi:type="xsd:integer">9</element>
<element xsi:type="xsd:integer">10</element>
</xmlString>
</SOAP-ENV:Body>
"""
        intlist =  parsexml(xml)
        print intlist

Output is :

<?xml version="1.0" ?>
<SOAP-ENV:Body>
<xmlString>
<element xsi:type="xsd:integer">1</element>
<element xsi:type="xsd:integer">2</element>
<element xsi:type="xsd:integer">3</element>
<element xsi:type="xsd:integer">4</element>
<element xsi:type="xsd:integer">5</element>
<element xsi:type="xsd:integer">6</element>
<element xsi:type="xsd:integer">7</element>
<element xsi:type="xsd:integer">8</element>
<element xsi:type="xsd:integer">9</element>
<element xsi:type="xsd:integer">10</element>
</xmlString>
</SOAP-ENV:Body>
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "./MyHandler.py", line 81, in ?
    value =  parsexml(xml)
  File "./MyHandler.py", line 15, in parsexml
    print each.data
AttributeError: Element instance has no attribute 'data'


If I instead of try to get the data I just :
for each in modlist:
        print each.toxml()

I get the following...This makes me think that I am indeed looking for data
in the correct place?

<element xsi:type="xsd:integer">1</element>
<element xsi:type="xsd:integer">2</element>
<element xsi:type="xsd:integer">3</element>
<element xsi:type="xsd:integer">4</element>
<element xsi:type="xsd:integer">5</element>
<element xsi:type="xsd:integer">6</element>
<element xsi:type="xsd:integer">7</element>
<element xsi:type="xsd:integer">8</element>
<element xsi:type="xsd:integer">9</element>
<element xsi:type="xsd:integer">10</element>
[]

Thanks

John Ertl