XML Dom question

[John Taylor]

Brett,

This works great.  Thanks for responding!

-John

"Humphreys, Brett" <bretth at aiinet.com> wrote in message news:<mailman.3309.1095171613.5135.python-list at python.org>...
> John, you actually would add a text node to your 'myNode' object.  For
> example:
> 
>     	w = walker.currentNode
> 	if "menu  File  Exit" == name and 0 == needs value and 0 ==
> test:
> 		myNode = doc.createElement("shortcut key")
> 		myNode.setAttribute("modifier","SHIFT")
> 		myTextNode = doc.createTextNOde("F4")
> 		myNode.appendChild(myTextNode)
> 		w.appendChild( myNode )  
> 		test = 1
> 
> It should create output such as:
> 
>  <object name='menu  File  Exit' class='wxMenuItem'>
>       <label>E xit</label>
>       <event class='EVT MENU'>On  File  Exit</event>
> 	<shortcut key modifier='SHIFT'>F4</shortcut key>
>  </object>
> 
> -Brett
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: python-list-bounces+bretth=aiinet.com at python.org
> [mailto:python-list-bounces+bretth=aiinet.com at python.org] On Behalf Of
> John Taylor
> Sent: Tuesday, September 14, 2004 10:06 AM
> To: python-list at python.org
> Subject: XML Dom question
> 
> 
> I am trying to insert a new element and value into a XML Dom structure
> and am having some trouble.
> 
> When I read the file in from disk, I have this:
> 
>     <object name='menu  File  Exit' class='wxMenuItem'>
>       <label>E xit</label>
>       <event class='EVT MENU'>On  File  Exit</event>
>     </object>
> 
> When I run this code:
> 
>         w = walker.currentNode
> 	if "menu  File  Exit" == name and 0 == needs value and 0 ==
> test:
> 		myNode = doc.createElement("shortcut key")
> 		myNode.setAttribute("modifier","SHIFT")
> 		w.appendChild( myNode )  
> 		test = 1
> 
> I get this result:
> 
>     <object name='menu  File  Exit' class='wxMenuItem'>
>       <label>E xit</label>
>       <event class='EVT MENU'>On  File  Exit</event>
>       <shortcut key modifier='SHIFT'/>
>     </object>
> 
> This is what I really want:
>       <shortcut key modifier='SHIFT'/>F4</shortcut key>
> 
> Can some one post code on how to do this?  I tried creating a new Node
> (called newNode) and setting the nodeType and NodeValue and the use the
> appendChild() method, but I keep getting this error:
> 
> code:
> myNode.appendChild(newNode)
> 
> error:
> AttributeError: Node instance has no attribute 'childNodes'
> 
> Any help would be greatly appreciated!
> 
> Thanks,
> -John