How can i generate a schema inferred from an xml document using xml.dom.minidom

lostangel696

Could somoene please guide me on how i would go about generating a schema using minidom inferred from an xml document that i have made.
Thankyou

lostangel696

help. I basicly need to use minidom to extract the element names from an xml document and output them to another, to form a schema.

lostangel696

bump please help me!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

lostangel696

I need to make an application to read an xml document, and extract the names between the tags and print them.
I do not want duplicates
so say

<root>
<weapon>P228
<price>468
</price>
</weapon>
<weapon>USP
<price>500
</price>
</weapon>
</root>

if this is the xml file, then i want the application to print,
<root>
<weapon>
<price>

Thanks.

bvdet

Using xml.dom.minidom, you can extract tag data using method doc.getElementsByTagName() and reading attribute firstChid.data. Note that "root" has no data.

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 from xml.dom import minidom
 
def getTagData(doc, tag):

    output = []

    for elem in doc.getElementsByTagName(tag):

        data = str(elem.firstChild.data).strip()

        if data:

            output.append(data)

    return output
 
doc = '''<root>

<weapon>P228

<price>468

</price>

</weapon>

<weapon>USP

<price>500

</price>

</weapon>

</root>'''
 
docXML = minidom.parseString(doc)
 
for tag in ('root', 'weapon', 'price'):

    data = getTagData(docXML,tag)

    if data:

        for item in getTagData(docXML,tag):

            print "Tag '%s': %s" % (tag, item)

    else:

        print "No data to display for tag '%s'" % tag

Output:

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 >>> No data to display for tag 'root'

Tag 'weapon': P228

Tag 'weapon': USP

Tag 'price': 468

Tag 'price': 500

>>>

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