Accessing DOM nodes in Python

[Thomas Gagne]

I was just going through the XML howto about creating DOMs.  I have a buffer
that looks like:

<isResult>
<isResultInfo rows="-1" status="-6"/>
</isResult>

And I want to get the value of the "status" attribute.  My subroutine looks
like:
def isResultValue(buffer):
    print buffer
    parser = saxexts.make_parser()

    dh = SaxBuilder()

    parser.setDocumentHandler(dh)

    fh = StringIO.StringIO(buffer)
    parser.parseFile(fh)

    print dh.get_parentNode()

    parser.close()
    fh.close()

Now, the problem is, I don't know how to get the first node from dh.  I
usually try to print variables to see what they can do, but I'm not seeing
anything when I try "print dh".  I've tried printing dh.parentNode and
dh.get_parentNode() without success.  I think if someone could just point me
in the right direction I'd be zooming right along.


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.tom