Hello, I am not real sure if my question belongs here or not, but this is best place I could find.
I am a python beginner and trying to teach myself how to parse some XML with minidom. This is the code excerpt I am struggling with.... ******************************************************** dom = minidom.parseString(xml_response) handler.close() route_list = [] tag = ['route'] tmp_route=[] for route in dom.getElementsByTagName('body'): print 'in' tmp_route[route] = dom.getElementsByTagName(tag)[0].getAttribute('tag') route_list.append(tmp_route) ******************************************************************* Here is the XML I am getting back when I call... '<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" ?> \r\n<body copyright="All data copyright MBTA 2010.">\r\n<route tag="39" title="39"/>\r\n<route tag="111" title="111"/>\r\n<route tag="114" title="114"/>\r\n<route tag="116" title="116"/>\r\n<route tag="117" title="117"/>\r\n</body>\r\n' See this formatted better by pasting this URL = > http://webservices.nextbus.com/service/publicXMLFeed?command=routeList&a=mbta I am taking the following error: File "C:/Users/Kim/Grad School/Python/bus python.py", line 54, in <module> get_available_routes() File "C:/Users/Kim/Grad School/Python/bus python.py", line 43, in get_available_routes tmp_route[route] = dom.getElementsByTagName(tag)[0].getAttribute('tag') IndexError: list index out of range I'm sure there is something obvious that I am doing wrong. All I want to do is grab all of the <route tag> values and put them into a list. Kind of new to parsing XML! I'm working off an example but the XML in the example code is a lot more in depth so can't really relate it to mine. I also would like any reference anyone has about how to parse with minidom!! Help! Thank you! %-| -- View this message in context: http://old.nabble.com/parsing-XML-with-minidom-tp27447458p27447458.html Sent from the Python - xml-sig mailing list archive at Nabble.com. _______________________________________________ XML-SIG maillist - XML-SIG@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/xml-sig