Question

how do i know a parent node’s name say i am at label = “shirt”, how do i know that its parent is john_carter whose parent is “FG”. Is it possible to know ( in minidom )

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        <Object type="Layer" id="6" label="FG" expanded="True">
            <Properties>
                <Property id="blur" constant="True">
                    <Value>0</Value>
                </Property>
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                <Property id="objects" expanded="True" constant="True">
                    <Object type="Layer" id="7" label="john_carter">
                        <Properties>
                            <Property id="blur" constant="True">
                                <Value>0</Value>
                            </Property>
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                            <Property id="objects" expanded="True" constant="True">
                                <Object type="Layer" id="8" label="shirt" selected="True">
                                    <Properties>
                                        <Property id="blur" constant="True">
                                            <Value>0</Value>
                                        </Property>
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Answer 1

Maybe like this?

import xml.dom.minidom

def getParentObjectNode(node):
    while node.parentNode:
        node = node.parentNode
        if node.nodeName == "Object":
            return node

xml = xml.dom.minidom.parse("C:\\myxml.xml")
for shirtNode in xml.getElementsByTagName("Object"):
    if shirtNode.getAttribute("label") == "shirt":
        break

shirtParentObject = getParentObjectNode(shirtNode)
print(shirtParentObject.getAttribute("label"))
shirtParentParentObject = getParentObjectNode(shirtParentObject)
print(shirtParentParentObject.getAttribute("label"))