Hello, I have a really strange problem. I'm unable to figure it out on my own.
I parse very simple xml documents, without any check for their form. These files look very similar and are encoded in UTF-8. Now minidom is always able to parse these files with minidom.parse("file") . Now when fetching I use this expression: xmldoc.getElementsByTagName('DocNumb')[0].firstChild.data.encode('latin1') (I know it's not beautiful but convenient. ) It always work, but sometimes it simply fails to fetch any element. Redoing it from hand in the python console with the same file always works. I have no idea what the error is. I compared working and not working files with the hex editor. I couldn't find any significant change. It's too strange. If anybody has any clue, hint or anything, please let me know. Regards, Jonatan -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list