[4suite] Re: get element text in DOM?

[Uche Ogbuji]

On Wed, 2004-11-10 at 14:20 -0500, Jeremy Jones wrote:
> Sorry - my send finger got a little trigger happy.  Let's try again.
> 
> Jeremy Jones wrote: 
> > Juliano Freitas wrote: 
> > > 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
> > > 
> > > 
> > >   
> > How about something like this:
> > 
> > 
> > 
> In [24]: from xml.dom import minidom
> 
> In [25]: x = """<root><teste> texto </teste></root>"""
> 
> In [26]: document = minidom.parseString(x)
> 
> In [27]: print document.documentElement.getElementsByTagName
> ('teste')[0].childNodes[0].data

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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