Plain old SAX and minidom useable? But how then?

[Dobedani]

Dear All,

I guess I don't know where to look for the right information. I hope
you guys can help me on the way. I want to retrieve a string from an
XML-file. If Python were to have XPath available, my problem would be
solved. The xquery string would be enough and I have already obtained
that the string. The problem is that I cannot use any add-on - like
xmllib, sax2 or elementtree - as my customers only have the so-called
stock Python install - i.e. version 2.4.1. I've seen some posts from
2½ years ago by Nelson Minar and also by Uche Ogbuji who wrote:
"Nelson says: There's the stock Python install, which barely does
anything [for XML]. That's overstated. Plain old SAX and minidom may
not be ideal, but they're useable."

Please: where then can I find examples of such use? If I cannot use
xpath, I would not mind to browse a bit - e.g. using functions like
getElementByTag() but I don't even know how to use those. TIA

Kind regards,
Dobedani