* Max Noel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2005-01-19 11:48]:
>
> On Jan 19, 2005, at 03:58, David Rock wrote:
>
> >For me, it seems that the way you are supposed to interact with an XML
> >DOM is to already know what you are looking for, and in theory, you
> >_should_ know ;-)
>
> Indeed. The problem is, even if I know what I'm looking for, the
> problem remains that given the following document,
>
> <foo>
> <bar>baz</bar>
> </foo>
>
> If I want to get "baz", the command is (assuming a DOM object has
> been created):
>
> doc.documentElement.getElementsByTagName("bar")[0].childNodes[0].nodeVal
> ue
>
> Quoting from memory there, it may not be entirely correct. However,
> the command has more characters than the document itself. Somehow I
> feel it'd be a bit more elegant to use:
>
> doc["bar"]
>
> (or depending on the implementation, doc["foo"]["bar"])
>
> Don't you think?Absolutely. That is exactly what I was hoping for, too. ElementTree comes close, but even that can be a bit unwieldy because of the multi-dimentional array you end up with. Still, if you know the data, doc[0][0] is a lot easier than doc.documentElement...nodeValue -- David Rock [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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