Hi,
If i get myself a DOM tree using xml.dom.minidom (or full-fat xml.dom, i
don't mind), is there an easy way to ask a element for its child elements
of a particular type? By 'type' i mean 'having a certain tag'.
This strikes me as a rather common thing to want to do, but i can't see a
method for it; it seems i have to go through elem.childNodes myself,
fishing out the ones i want. Or rather, to write exactly the same
three-line helper function that millions of other people must have written
to do this. Am i missing something blindingly obvious? I'm happy to RTFM
here, but would appreciate a pointer to the appropriate such manual, since
the docs i have to hand are somewhat unenlightening.
Thanks,
tom
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Tom Anderson wrote: This strikes me as a rather common thing to want to do, but i can't see a method for it; it seems i have to go through elem.childNodes myself, fishing out the ones i want. Or rather, to write exactly the same three-line helper function that millions of other people must have written to do this. Am i missing something blindingly obvious? I'm happy to RTFM here, but would appreciate a pointer to the appropriate such manual, since the docs i have to hand are somewhat unenlightening.
No RTFM here - it's just that (stupid..) way. Go read up RTFMs on
elementtree or XPath though - they'll do what you want.
Diez
"""
If i get myself a DOM tree using xml.dom.minidom (or full-fat xml.dom,
i
don't mind)
"""
Don't do that. Stick to minidom. The "full" xml.dom from PyXML is
ancient and slow. Of course, there are other, better libraries
available now, too.
"""
is there an easy way to ask a element for its child elements
of a particular type? By 'type' i mean 'having a certain tag'.
"""
You can use list comprehensions[1]. You could use XPath, if you're
willing to use a library that supports XPath.
In Amara[2], this task is trivial. To get all the images in an XHTML
div, you'd simply do:
for img in div.img:
process_img(img )
You access names directly as objects according to their element type
name.
[1] see, e.g., http://www.xml.com/pub/a/2003/01/08/py-xml.html
[2] see http://www.xml.com/pub/a/2005/01/19/amara.html
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