get textual content of a Xml element using 4DOM

[frankabel]

Hi all!
I have the following xml file:
"
<items>
<item>hi</item>
<item>hello</item>
</items>
"
and need to read all the content between <items> and </items> tags and
saved in a string, in this case:
"
<item>hi</item>
<item>hello</item>
"
Working with "xml.dom.minido m" I can use the
"xml.dom.minido m.Node.toxml()" to obtain the string inside one node. But
I wish to use 4DOM to load my DOM tree.

Someone know a manner to make something like
"xml.dom.minido m.Node.toxml()" using 4DOM?

Why a lightweight implementation like "xml.dom.minido m" have this
feature, while a 4DOM don't?

Thanks

[uche.ogbuji@gmail.com]

Re: get textual content of a Xml element using 4DOM

I suggest using minidom or pxdom [1] rather than 4DOM. If you insist
on using 4DOM, xml.dom.ext.Pri nt(node) or xml.dom.ext.Pre ttyPrint(node)
does what you want.

--Uche

[uche.ogbuji@gmail.com]

Re: get textual content of a Xml element using 4DOM

I suggest using minidom or pxdom [1] rather than 4DOM. If you insist
on using 4DOM, xml.dom.ext.Pri nt(node) or xml.dom.ext.Pre ttyPrint(node)
does what you want.

[1] http://www.doxdesk.com/software/py/pxdom.html

--Uche

[Frank Abel Cancio Bello]

Re: get textual content of a Xml element using 4DOM

Hi:

PrettyPrint or Print return the value to the console, and i need keep this
value in a string variable to work with it, how can i do this?

thanks to Uche

Frank Abel

-----Original Message-----
From: uche.ogbuji@gma il.com
To: python-list@python.org
Date: 4 Mar 2005 09:23:07 -0800
Subject: Re: get textual content of a Xml element using 4DOM
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> I suggest using minidom or pxdom [1] rather than 4DOM. If you insist
> on using 4DOM, xml.dom.ext.Pri nt(node) or xml.dom.ext.Pre ttyPrint(node)
> does what you want.
>
> [1] http://www.doxdesk.com/software/py/pxdom.html
>
> --Uche
>
> --
> http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
>
>[/color]

[and-google@doxdesk.com]

Re: get textual content of a Xml element using 4DOM

Frank Abel Cancio Bello <FRANKA...@esla .cujae.edu.cu> wrote:
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> PrettyPrint or Print return the value to the console, and i need
> keep this value in a string variable to work with it, how can i
> do this?[/color]

The second parameter to either of these functions can be a stream
object, so you can use a StringIO to get string output:

from StringIO import StringIO
from xml.dom.ext import Print

buf= StringIO()
Print(doc, buf)
xml= buf.getvalue()

--
Andrew Clover

http://www.doxdesk.com/

mailto:and@doxd esk.com