[XML-SIG] parsing XML with minidom

[Stefan Behnel]

kimmyaf, 26.04.2010 23:14:
> Stefan Behnel-3 wrote:
>> kimmyaf, 26.04.2010 00:24:
>>> Hello. I've only done a litte bit of parsing with minidom before but I'm
>>> having trouble getting my values out of this xml. I need the latitude and
>>> longitude values in bold.
>>
>> I don't see anything 'bold' in your mail, but your example tells me what
>> data you mean.
>>
>> Here is some untested code using xml.etree.cElementTree:
>>
>>       import xml.etree.cElementTree as ET
>>       tree = ET.parse("thefile.xml")
>>       for tag in tree.getiterator("location"):
>>           print tag.findtext("lat"), tag.findtext("lng")
>
> Thanks Stefan. I tried this but it's not getting into the for block for some
> reason.

Maybe the document uses namespace declarations that you forgot to show us?

Stefan