[XML-SIG] parsing XML with minidom

[kimmyaf]

Now that I look at my file it does not look well formed. Do I have to use a
file? I tried to do

tree = ET.parse(xml_response)

but i got a file IO error...




kimmyaf wrote:
> 
> I don't really know... Here's the whole story.
> 
> I am retrieving the xml by calling this link.
> 
> http://maps.google.com/maps/api/geocode/xml?address=50+Oakland+St,Wellesley,MA,02481&sensor=true
> 
> 
> 
> Here's the entire function:
> 
> addr = '50+Oakland+St,Wellesley,MA,02481'
> 
> def geocode_addr(addr):
>     hostname =  'http://maps.google.com/maps/api/geocode/xml?'
>     prefix = 'address='
>     sensor = '&sensor=true'
>     url = hostname + prefix + addr + sensor
>     
>     print url
>     
>     handler = urllib2.urlopen(url)
>             
>     xml_response = handler.read()    
>     print xml_response
>     #dom = minidom.parseString(xml_response)    
>     handler.close()
>     
>     tree = ET.parse("GeocodeResponse.xml")
>     print 'here'
>     for tag in tree.getiterator("location"):
>         print 'here1'
>         print tag.findtext("lat")
>         tag.findtext("lng")
> 
> 
> *** I actually just pasted the xml from the shell where i printed
> xml_response and saved it into an xml file in my folder called
> GeocodeResponse.xml to test this... before going through the work of
> saving the xml into a file. I got the "here" but not the "here1"
> 
> I'm attaching my actual file..
> 
> Sorry! I appreciate the help! this is the last piece of functionality i
> need to get working for my programming assignment! 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> Stefan Behnel-3 wrote:
>> 
>> kimmyaf, 26.04.2010 23:14:
>>> Stefan Behnel-3 wrote:
>>>> kimmyaf, 26.04.2010 00:24:
>>>>> Hello. I've only done a litte bit of parsing with minidom before but
>>>>> I'm
>>>>> having trouble getting my values out of this xml. I need the latitude
>>>>> and
>>>>> longitude values in bold.
>>>>
>>>> I don't see anything 'bold' in your mail, but your example tells me
>>>> what
>>>> data you mean.
>>>>
>>>> Here is some untested code using xml.etree.cElementTree:
>>>>
>>>>       import xml.etree.cElementTree as ET
>>>>       tree = ET.parse("thefile.xml")
>>>>       for tag in tree.getiterator("location"):
>>>>           print tag.findtext("lat"), tag.findtext("lng")
>>>
>>> Thanks Stefan. I tried this but it's not getting into the for block for
>>> some
>>> reason.
>> 
>> Maybe the document uses namespace declarations that you forgot to show
>> us?
>> 
>> Stefan
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>> 
>  http://old.nabble.com/file/p28382321/GeocodeResponse.xml
> GeocodeResponse.xml 
> http://old.nabble.com/file/p28382321/GeocodeResponse.xml
> GeocodeResponse.xml 
> 

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