* Max Noel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2005-01-19 11:48]: > > On Jan 19, 2005, at 03:58, David Rock wrote: > > >For me, it seems that the way you are supposed to interact with an XML > >DOM is to already know what you are looking for, and in theory, you > >_should_ know ;-) > > Indeed. The problem is, even if I know what I'm looking for, the > problem remains that given the following document, > > <foo> > <bar>baz</bar> > </foo> > > If I want to get "baz", the command is (assuming a DOM object has > been created): > > doc.documentElement.getElementsByTagName("bar")[0].childNodes[0].nodeVal > ue > > Quoting from memory there, it may not be entirely correct. However, > the command has more characters than the document itself. Somehow I > feel it'd be a bit more elegant to use: > > doc["bar"] > > (or depending on the implementation, doc["foo"]["bar"]) > > Don't you think?
Absolutely. That is exactly what I was hoping for, too. ElementTree comes close, but even that can be a bit unwieldy because of the multi-dimentional array you end up with. Still, if you know the data, doc[0][0] is a lot easier than doc.documentElement...nodeValue -- David Rock [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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