parse xml

[Andreas Waldenburger]

On Fri, 15 Oct 2010 10:49:18 -0700 (PDT) kostia
<kostya.demchuk at gmail.com> wrote:

> I have xml file:
> <?xml version="1.1" encoding="UTF-8"?>
> <root>
>         <n>50000</n>
> </root>
> 
> I want to get the value of n (= 50000) inside my python program, I'm
> doing this:
> 
> import xml.dom.minidom
> from xml.dom.minidom import Node
> doc = xml.dom.minidom.parseString("boolean_width.xml")
> n = doc.getElementsByTagName("root")[0].firstChild.nodeValue.strip()
> print n
> 
> and it is failed. [snip]

How? What's the error message?

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