XML help

[Joonas Paalasmaa]

Vincent Foley <vince at news.videotron.ca> wrote in message news:<AYpl8.16002$i66.686070 at wagner.videotron.net>...
> Hi,
> 
>   I have a XML document <http://freshmeat.net/projects-xml/vim/vim.xml>.
> I want to put the latest_version value in a variable.  How would I do
> that?

By using xml.dom.minidom.

from xml.dom import minidom
import urllib

doc = minidom.parse(urllib.urlopen("http://freshmeat.net/projects-xml/vim/vim.xml"))
print doc.getElementsByTagName("project-listing")[0]. \
    getElementsByTagName("project")[0]. \
    getElementsByTagName("latest_version")[0].childNodes[0].data