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]

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[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.getElements ByTagName() and reading attribute firstChid.data. Note that "root" has no data.

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:

>>> No data to display for tag 'root'
Tag 'weapon': P228
Tag 'weapon': USP
Tag 'price': 468
Tag 'price': 500
>>>