[Tutor] A somewhat easier way to parse XML

[David Rock]

* Max Noel <maxnoel_fr at yahoo.fr> [2005-01-19 11:48]:
> 
> On Jan 19, 2005, at 03:58, David Rock wrote:
> 
> >For me, it seems that the way you are supposed to interact with an XML
> >DOM is to already know what you are looking for, and in theory, you
> >_should_ know ;-)
> 
> 	Indeed. The problem is, even if I know what I'm looking for, the  
> problem remains that given the following document,
> 
> <foo>
> 	<bar>baz</bar>
> </foo>
> 
> 	If I want to get "baz", the command is (assuming a DOM object has 
> 	been  created):
> 
> doc.documentElement.getElementsByTagName("bar")[0].childNodes[0].nodeVal 
> ue
> 
> 	Quoting from memory there, it may not be entirely correct. However,  
> the command has more characters than the document itself. Somehow I  
> feel it'd be a bit more elegant to use:
> 
> doc["bar"]
> 
> (or depending on the implementation, doc["foo"]["bar"])
> 
> 	Don't you think?

Absolutely. That is exactly what I was hoping for, too. ElementTree
comes close, but even that can be a bit unwieldy because of the
multi-dimentional array you end up with. Still, if you know the data,

doc[0][0] is a lot easier than doc.documentElement...nodeValue

-- 
David Rock
david at graniteweb.com
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