minidom Node to Element

[Richard Lewis]

Hang on!

It *knows*! Wow, you can call getElementsByTagName() on a Node object
and it does the right thing.
Weird, but I like it! Very Python!

R.
On Fri, 03 Jun 2005 17:07:37 +0100, "Richard Lewis"
<richardlewis at fastmail.co.uk> said:
> Hey,
> 
> Can I convert an xml.dom.Node object to an xml.dom.Element object? I
> want to do the conversion inside a condition like this:
> 
> if node.nodeType == Node.ELEMENT_NODE:
>     # do conversion:
>     element = Element(node)
>     element = node.toElement()
> 
> so it definitely won't cause problems. I just can't find a way to do it!
> 
> (I want to be able to call getElementsByTagName() on the resultant
> object; any other workarounds which allow the same functionality would
> be just as cool ;-)
> 
> Cheers,
> Richard
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