[Tutor] How to get a string from a DOM Text node ?

[Dave Kuhlman]

On Sun, May 25, 2008 at 11:10:19PM +0100, Alan Gauld wrote:
> 
> "Zameer Manji" <zmanji at gmail.com> wrote in
> >
> >The problem is that the Text node that is printed out is blank, when 
> >it
> >should be 42. What do I need to do so I can get tdict.childNodes[2] 
> >to
> 
> I may be off base here; I only used DOM once. I usually use
> ElementTree for parsing XML(and only rarely do that!). But isn't there
> a data or content field on the tag object that you have to use?
> 

I second Alan's suggestion that you use ElementTree instead of
minidom.  It's in the Python 2.5 standard library now.  And, you
can find documentation here:

    http://effbot.org/zone/element-index.htm

But, if you do stick with minidom, then I believe that you want
something like this:

    if node.nodeType == node.TEXT_NODE:
        print 'characters: "%s"' % (node.data, )

- Dave            

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