Question

What is this error message ?

My code

#!/usr/bin/python
from xml.dom.minidom import Document

def CreateXml(nameSpace, rootElementName):
    xmlDoc = xml.dom.minidom.Document()
    xmlRootElement = doc.createElementNS(nameSpace, rootElementName)
    xmlDoc.appendChild(xmlRootElement)

    return xmlDoc

Error is

File "/home/users/web/b2896/moo.something/cgi-bin/py/sbmain/main.py", line 27, in initialize 
xmlDoc = py.sbxml.XmlDocumentHandler.CreateXml(_GUESTNAMESPACE, 'guest') 
File "/home/users/web/b2896/moo.something/cgi-bin/py/sbxml/XmlDocumentHandler.py", line 6, in CreateXml 
xmlDoc = xml.dom.minidom.Document() 
NameError: global name 'xml 

Is it because it is not able to able to find the path of my python?

Thanks in advance

Answer 1

You forgot to import xml.dom.minidom to import the XML minidom module.

>>> xml.dom.minidom.Document()
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
NameError: name 'xml' is not defined
>>> import xml.dom.minidom
>>> xml.dom.minidom.Document()
<xml.dom.minidom.Document instance at 0x7f73ae601a28>