Question

from xml.dom.minidom import parseString
dom = parseString(data)
data = dom.getElementsByTagName('data')

the ‘data’ variable returns as an element object but I cant for the life of me see in the documentation to grab the text value of the element.

For example:

<something><data>I WANT THIS</data></something>

Anyone have any ideas?

Answer 1

This should do the trick:

dom = parseString('<something><data>I WANT THIS</data></something>')
data = dom.getElementsByTagName('data')[0].childNodes[0].data

i.e. you need to wade deeper into the DOM structure to get at the text child node and then access its value.