get element text in DOM?

[Juliano Freitas]

How can i get the text between the <teste> tags??

xml = """<root><teste> texto </teste></root>"""
from xml.dom import minidom
document = minidom.parseString(xml)
document <xml.dom.minidom.Document instance at 0x4181df0c> minidom.getElementsByTagName('teste') element = document.getElementsByTagName('teste')
element [<DOM Element: teste at 0x418e110c>] element[0].nodeType

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Juliano Freitas

[Irmen de Jong]

Juliano Freitas wrote:

How can i get the text between the <teste> tags??

xml = """<root><teste> texto </teste></root>"""

You must know that the text between the tags is a DOM element
by itself, namely a TEXT node, which is a child of the
elment node formed by the tag.

So try;

xml = """<root><teste> texto </teste></root>"""
from xml.dom import minidom
document = minidom.parseString(xml)
element = document.getElementsByTagName('teste')
textelt=element[0].firstChild
print textelt.nodeType, textelt.nodeValue

and it will print:

3 texto

--Irmen

[Uche Ogbuji]

Juliano Freitas <ju*****@atlas.ucpel.tche.br> wrote in message news:<ma**************************************@pyt hon.org>...

How can i get the text between the <teste> tags??

xml = """<root><teste> texto </teste></root>"""
from xml.dom import minidom
document = minidom.parseString(xml)
document <xml.dom.minidom.Document instance at 0x4181df0c> minidom.getElementsByTagName('teste') element = document.getElementsByTagName('teste')
element [<DOM Element: teste at 0x418e110c>] element[0].nodeType 1

Juliano Freitas

http://lists.fourthought.com/piperma...er/013027.html

Verbatim:

"""
Or, ObTopic, for 4Suite recent CVS:

from Ft.Xml.Domlette import NonvalidatingReader
doc = NonvalidatingReader.parseString("<root><teste> texto </teste></root>", 'urn:dummy') print doc.xpath('string(/root/teste)')

texto

Simple and sweet IMHO.
"""

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[Manlio Perillo]

On Wed, 10 Nov 2004 17:11:09 -0200, Juliano Freitas
<ju*****@atlas.ucpel.tche.br> wrote:

How can i get the text between the <teste> tags??

xml = """<root><teste> texto </teste></root>"""
from xml.dom import minidom
document = minidom.parseString(xml)
document<xml.dom.minidom.Document instance at 0x4181df0c> minidom.getElementsByTagName('teste') element = document.getElementsByTagName('teste')
element[<DOM Element: teste at 0x418e110c>] element[0].nodeType1

Here is an useful function I have written:

def getText(node, recursive = False):
"""
Get all the text associated with this node.
With recursive == True, all text from child nodes is retrieved
"""
L = ['']
for n in node.childNodes:
if n.nodeType in (dom.Node.TEXT_NODE,
dom.Node.CDATA_SECTION_NODE):
L.append(n.data)
else:
if not recursive:
return None
L.append( get_text(n) )

return ''.join(L)

print getText(element[0])

Regards Manlio Perillo

[Andrew Clover]

Manlio Perillo <NO******************@libero.it> wrote:

for n in node.childNodes:
if n.nodeType in (dom.Node.TEXT_NODE, dom.Node.CDATA_SECTION_NODE):
(Aside: node.TEXT_NODE would probably be better here. Can't guarantee
that a DOM's implementation of the 'Node' interface is available as a
class called 'Node' inside its module.)
L.append(n.data)
else:
if not recursive:
return None

Surely 'continue'? This will exit the function (returning None instead
of the expected empty string) the first time a non-Text node is met.

Incidentally, DOM Level 3 Core defines the property 'textContent' to
return pretty much exactly this (although it removes the ignorable
whitespace). Not in minidom yet, but... <insert usual plug here>

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