get element text in DOM?

[Uche Ogbuji]

Juliano Freitas <jubafre at atlas.ucpel.tche.br> wrote in message news:<mailman.6228.1100113797.5135.python-list at python.org>...
> How can i get the text between the <teste> tags??
> 
> >>> xml = """<root><teste> texto </teste></root>"""
> >>> from xml.dom import minidom
> >>> document = minidom.parseString(xml)
> >>> document
>  <xml.dom.minidom.Document instance at 0x4181df0c>
> >>> minidom.getElementsByTagName('teste')
>  
> >>> element = document.getElementsByTagName('teste')
> >>> element
>  [<DOM Element: teste at 0x418e110c>]
> >>> element[0].nodeType
> 1
> 
> Juliano Freitas

http://lists.fourthought.com/pipermail/4suite/2004-November/013027.html

Verbatim:

"""
Or, ObTopic, for 4Suite recent CVS:

>>> from Ft.Xml.Domlette import NonvalidatingReader
>>> doc = NonvalidatingReader.parseString("<root><teste> texto
</teste></root>", 'urn:dummy')
>>> print doc.xpath('string(/root/teste)')
 texto

Simple and sweet IMHO.
"""

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