[XML-SIG] Node as Element?

[Ian Sparks]

You were correct (thanks also to Rich and Alexandre).

Pesky WhiteSpace!

I think there's a setting for the DOM to filter this out when it is parsed
into the DOM?

Thanks.

- Ian Sparks.

-----Original Message-----
From: Fred L. Drake, Jr. [mailto:fdrake@acm.org]
Sent: Thursday, December 20, 2001 11:28 AM
To: Ian Sparks
Cc: 'xml-sig@python.org'
Subject: Re: [XML-SIG] Node as Element?



Ian Sparks writes:
 >    for x in y.childNodes:
 >         if x.getAttributeNS('','attribute_name') == 'foo':
 >            do_something...
 > 
 > I get an error. 

  I'm going to guess that you're getting an AttributeError, and that x
is *not* an Element node, but a Text node that contains whitespace
from between elements.  You should be able to use this:

    for x in y.childNodes:
        if (x.nodeType == Node.ELEMENT_NODE
             and x.getAttributeNS('','attribute_name') == 'foo'):
            do_something...

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