"gerardob" <gberbeg...@gmail.com> wrote in message
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I am trying to read an xml using minidom from python library xml.dom
This is the xml file:
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<rm_structure>
<resources>
<resource>
AB
<Capacity>100</Capacity>
<NumberVirtualClasses>
2
</NumberVirtualClasses>
</resource>
</resources>
</rm_structure>
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This is the python code:
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from xml.dom import minidom
doc= minidom.parse("example.xml")
resources_section = doc.getElementsByTagName('resources')
list_resources = resources_section[0].getElementsByTagName('resource')
for r in list_resources:
name = r.childNodes[0].nodeValue
print name
print len(name)
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The problem is that the nodeValue stored in the variable 'name' is not
"AB"
(what i want) but instead it is a string that has length of 8 and it seems
it include the tabs and/or other things.
How can i get the string "AB" without the other stuff?
Thanks.
Whitespace in XML is significant. If the file was:
<rm_structure>
<resources>
<resource>AB<Capacity>100</Capacity>
<NumberVirtualClasses>2</NumberVirtualClasses>
</resource>
</resources>
</rm_structure>
You would just read 'AB'. If you don't control the XML file, then:
print name.strip()
will remove leading and trailing whitespace.
-Mark
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