Question

Here is my xml file

<gui>
<object class="wxPanel" name="new"> 
     <object class="wxBoxSizer"> 
        <orient>wxVERTICAL</orient> 
        <object class="sizeritem"> 
            <object class="wxTextCtrl" name="a"></object>
        </object>  
            <option>1</option> 
            <flag>wxEXPAND</flag> 
        </object> 
</object>
</gui>

I want to get exactly what is in between the gui tag

So I would want this:

<object class="wxPanel" name="new"> 
     <object class="wxBoxSizer"> 
        <orient>wxVERTICAL</orient> 
        <object class="sizeritem"> 
            <object class="wxTextCtrl" name="a"></object>
        </object>  
            <option>1</option> 
            <flag>wxEXPAND</flag> 
        </object> 
</object>

I am currently using

minidom.parse("path to xml").getElementsByTagName('gui')[0].firstChild.nodeValue

However this does not work with getting xml as a string.

Answer 1

try toxml

gui = minidom.parse("path to xml").getElementsByTagName('gui')[0]
gui.getElementsByTagName('object')[0].toxml()