XML - attributes query

[Newt]

"Piet van Oostrum" <piet at cs.uu.nl> wrote in message
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> >>>>> "Newt" <newt_e at blueyonder.co.uk> (N) wrote:
>
> N> Hi all,
> N> I'm trying to use the following code fragment tp pick up some
attributes
> N> from an XML element.
>
> N> doc = xml.dom.minidom.parse("gard_skills_ele.xml")
>
> N> for s in doc.getElementsByTagName("skill"):
> N>     print s.childNodes.length
> N>     for c in s.childNodes:
> N>         print "--> " + c.nodeName
> N>     print "--> Has " + str(s.attributes.length) + " attributes"
> N>     print str(s.attributes.getNamedItem("name"))
>
> N> The xml input file looks like:
>
> N> <xml>
> N> <skill name="Art" points="1" />
> N> <skill name="Calligraphy" points="1" />
> N> <skill name="Ettiquette" points="1" />
> N> </xml>
>
> N> When I run the code, I get the following error:
>
> N> Traceback (most recent call last):
> N>   File "D:\py_stuff\test_xml.py", line 22, in ?
> N>     print str(s.attributes.getNamedItem("name"))
> N> AttributeError: NamedNodeMap instance has no attribute 'getNamedItem'
>
> N> The book I'm using (Python and XML) says that NamedNodeMap does support
> N> getNamedItem.
> N> Has anyone tried to use this?
>
> Your examples works with Python 2.2 and 2.3a2.
>
> --> Has 2 attributes
> <xml.dom.minidom.Attr instance at 0x35f360>
> 0
> --> Has 2 attributes
> <xml.dom.minidom.Attr instance at 0x35ff70>
> 0
> --> Has 2 attributes
> <xml.dom.minidom.Attr instance at 0x360af0>
>
> With the last line changed into:
>     print str(s.attributes.getNamedItem("name").nodeValue)
>
> --> Has 2 attributes
> Art
> 0
> --> Has 2 attributes
> Calligraphy
> 0
> --> Has 2 attributes
> Ettiquette
> [sic!]
> --
Nope, still get the same error message.

Newt

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