Hi, calm down, minidom is not easy to use, but it can solve your problem.
Dobedani wrote: > I guess I don't know where to look for the right information. I hope > you guys can help me on the way. I want to retrieve a string from an > XML-file. If Python were to have XPath available, my problem would be > solved. The xquery string would be enough and I have already obtained > that the string. The problem is that I cannot use any add-on - like > xmllib, sax2 or elementtree - as my customers only have the so-called > stock Python install - i.e. version 2.4.1. Too bad, that rules out lxml.etree (which has XPath and loads of other goodies). > Please: where then can I find examples of such use? If I cannot use > xpath, I would not mind to browse a bit - e.g. using functions like > getElementByTag() but I don't even know how to use those. TIA Try one of these (I looked for "minidom example"): http://www.faqs.org/docs/diveintopython/kgp_parse.html http://docs.python.org/lib/dom-example.html http://www.cutthecrap.biz/software/whitepapers/minidom.html Maybe that helps? Stefan -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
