XML - attributes query

[Newt]

Hi all,

I'm trying to use the following code fragment tp pick up some attributes
from an XML element.

doc = xml.dom.minidom.parse("gard_skills_ele.xml")

for s in doc.getElementsByTagName("skill"):
    print s.childNodes.length
    for c in s.childNodes:
        print "--> " + c.nodeName
    print "--> Has " + str(s.attributes.length) + " attributes"
    print str(s.attributes.getNamedItem("name"))

The xml input file looks like:

<xml>
<skill name="Art" points="1" />
<skill name="Calligraphy" points="1" />
<skill name="Ettiquette" points="1" />
</xml>

When I run the code, I get the following error:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "D:\py_stuff\test_xml.py", line 22, in ?
    print str(s.attributes.getNamedItem("name"))
AttributeError: NamedNodeMap instance has no attribute 'getNamedItem'

The book I'm using (Python and XML) says that NamedNodeMap does support
getNamedItem.
Has anyone tried to use this?

Newt