[Tutor] cdata/aml question..

[bruce]

Hi.

The following text contains sample data. I'm simply trying to parse it
using libxml2dom as the lib to extract data.

As an example, to get the name/desc

test data
<class_meta_data><departments><department><name><![CDATA[A
HTG]]></name><desc><![CDATA[American
Heritage]]></desc></department><department><name><![CDATA[ACC]]></name><desc><![CDATA[Accounting]]></desc></department>

    d = libxml2dom.parseString(s, html=1)

    p1="//department/name"
    p2="//department/desc"

    pcount_ = d.xpath(p1)
    p2_ = d.xpath(p2)
    print str(len(pcount_))
    nba=0

    for a in pcount_:
      abbrv=a.nodeValue
      print abbrv
      abbrv=a.toString()
      print abbrv
      abbrv=a.textContent
      print abbrv

neither of the above generates any of the CML name/desc data..

any pointers on what I'm missing???

I can/have created a quick parse/split process to get the data, but I
thought there'd be a straight forward process to extract the data
using one of the py/libs..

thanks