TommyVee, 14.05.2012 02:50: > I have a very simple XML document that I need to "walk", and I'm using > xml.dom.minidom. No attributes, just lots of nested tags and associated > values. All I'm looking to do is iterate through each of the highest > sibling nodes, check what the tag is, and process its value accordingly. > If a node has children, same thing - iterate through the nodes, check the > tags and process the values accordingly. I see where each node object has > a "childNodes" attribute, so I can drill down the tree. But what are the > node attributes which indicate Tag and Value? I thought it would have been > nodeName and nodeValue, but that doesn't seem to be. Does anyone know?
Use the xml.etree.ElementTree module instead. It makes this kind of work really easy, e.g.: import xml.etree.cElementTree as ET # using fast C accelerator module root = ET.parse("afile.xml").getroot() for child in root: if child.tag == 'abc': print("abc tag found") else: print("other tag found") There's also an incremental iterparse() function, in case your documents are large. Stefan -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list