Get Element value with minidom with Python

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I am creating a GUI frontend for the Eve Online API in Python.

I have successfully pulled the XML data from their server.

I am trying to grab the value from a node called "name":

from xml.dom.minidom import parse
dom = parse("C:\\eve.xml")
name = dom.getElementsByTagName('name')
print name

This seems to find the node, but the output is below:

[<DOM Element: name at 0x11e6d28>]

How could I get it to print the value of the node?

minidom dom python
9 Answers

It should just be

name[0].firstChild.nodeValue
user_75360

Probably something like this if it's the text part you want...

from xml.dom.minidom import parse
dom = parse("C:\\eve.xml")
name = dom.getElementsByTagName('name')

print " ".join(t.nodeValue for t in name[0].childNodes if t.nodeType == t.TEXT_NODE)

The text part of a node is considered a node in itself placed as a child-node of the one you asked for. Thus you will want to go through all its children and find all child nodes that are text nodes. A node can have several text nodes; eg.

<name>
  blabla
  <somestuff>asdf</somestuff>
  znylpx
</name>

You want both 'blabla' and 'znylpx'; hence the " ".join(). You might want to replace the space with a newline or so, or perhaps by nothing.

Henrik_Gustafsson_20100

you can use something like this.It worked out for me

doc = parse('C:\\eve.xml')
my_node_list = doc.getElementsByTagName("name")
my_n_node = my_node_list[0]
my_child = my_n_node.firstChild
my_text = my_child.data 
print my_text
user_5947820

It's a tree, and there may be nested elements. Try:

def innerText(self, sep=''):
    t = ""
    for curNode in self.childNodes:
        if (curNode.nodeType == Node.TEXT_NODE):
            t += sep + curNode.nodeValue
        elif (curNode.nodeType == Node.ELEMENT_NODE):
            t += sep + curNode.innerText(sep=sep)
    return t
user_2663710
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