[XML-SIG] Parsing help.

Fri Sep 3 09:28:36 CEST 2004

On Thu, 2004-09-02 at 14:34 +0200, Christian Johansson wrote:
> Hello.
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> This might be an trivial question, bet feel free to help a newbee J
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> XML:
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> - <<appointment id="11667" olid="" start="28.08.2004 09:30:00"
> end="28.08.2004 10:00:00">
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>           <subject>TODO</subject> 
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>           <body>xxx</body> 
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>  </appointment>
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> My stupid code:
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> doc = xml.dom.minidom.parse(inXML)
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> tagSubject = doc.getElementsByTagName('subject')
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> for subject in tagSubject:
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>   content = subject.nodeValue
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>   print content
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> Ok so why can I not see the the text “TODO”??
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> I have tried many similar approaches, but it just want work…
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> If someone can help me, I would become a happy man!

A common mistake when just starting out: the "TODO" string is the
content of a child of the subject node -- the child is a text node. In
this case, it is the first and only child, so you really want to be
looking at subject.firstChild.nodeValue, instead of subject.nodeValue.

Cheers,
Malcolm