[XML-SIG] python xml (Lukasz Szybalski)

[David Webster]

Look at BeautifulSoup:
http://www.crummy.com/software/BeautifulSoup/
The BeautifulSOAP class may do what you need.

> Date: Tue, 07 Mar 2006 11:23:55 -0600
> From: Lukasz Szybalski <szybalski at gmail.com>
> Subject: [XML-SIG] python xml
> To: xml-sig at python.org
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> 
> Hello,
> I am new to xml in python, but not new to python. After searching for 
> quite a bit, I can't seem to find the answer to this easy 
> coding problem.
> I have a xml file that i need to find an element with id = 2 extract 
> second child from it, and pass it on to the rest of my program.
> 
> How can i do it in "<10" lines of code in python?
> 
> --sample-File------default.xml--
> <?xml version="1.0"?>
> <response id="1">
>     <category>out</category>
>         <text>Hello,
>                 I'm out of office...etc..
>         </text>
> </response>
> <response id="2">
>     <category>in</category>
>         <text>Hello,
>                 I'm in the office...etc..
>         </text>
> </response>
> 
> 
> ---python --
> # I found most of the info/how to on minidom, so I assume 
> minidom is the 
> best choice here
> 
> from xml.dom import minidom, Node
> #parse a file,
> doc=minidom.parse('default.xml')
> # find attribute
> 
> .....and here I find myself reading tons of how to, but can't seem to 
> find what i'm looking for. .
> 
> #how can i do something like: (please correct me here)
>  for x in  doc.nodeList:
>     if x.attribute.get('id')==2:
>        pass_it_on = ????      #How do I get to <text> and 
> extract it as 
> string?
> 
> ---------EOF------
> Thanks for the help
> Lucas
>