[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > H!, > > Is it possible to get a <tag:id>value</tag:id> value ? > > When I do this: > ----------------------------------------------------- > theXML = """<?xml version="1.0"?> > <title>The Fascist Menace</title> > """ > import xml.dom.minidom as dom > doc = dom.parseString(theXML) > print doc.getElementsByTagName('title')[0].toxml() > > I get : <title>The Fascist Menace</title> thats oke for me > ----------------------------------------------------- > > But the xmlfile I must read have other tags: > theXML = """<?xml version="1.0"?> > <title:id>The Fascist Menace</title:id> > <title:name>bla la etc</title:name> > """ > > how to get that values ? > I try things like: > print doc.getElementsByTagName('title:id')[0].toxml() <--error
Addressing your general question, unfortunately you're a bit stuck. Minidom is rather confused about whether or not it's a namespace aware library. Addressing your specific example, I strongly advise you not to use documents that are not well-formed according to Namespaces 1.0. Your second example is a well-formed XML 1.0 external parsed entity, but not a well-formed XML 1.0 document entity, because it has multiple elements at document level. It's also not well-formed according to XMLNS 1.0 unless you declare the "title" prefix. You will not be able to use a non XMLNS 1.0 document with most XML technologies, including XSLT, WXS, RELAX NG, etc. If you have indeed declared a namespace and are just giving us a very bad example, use: print doc.getElementsByTagNameNS(title_namespace, 'id') -- Uche Ogbuji Fourthought, Inc. http://uche.ogbuji.net http://fourthought.com http://copia.ogbuji.net http://4Suite.org Articles: http://uche.ogbuji.net/tech/publications/ -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list