Need Python-XML help

[magestic]

Hello,

I'm stuck writing a piece of software. I'm using Python 2.5 on WinXP Pro. I don't know how to get done what I need to do. I have some standardized input that looks like this:

<somename>
<modulename>
<item>
<id>#UNIQUE_ID#</id>
<datetime>yyyy-MM-dd hh:mm:ss</datetime>
<title>#TEXT TITLE#</title>
<description>#TEXT BODY#</description>
<link>#LINK TO ARTICLE#</link>
</item>
</modulename>
</somename>

This is the output of a parserprogram I'm working with. What I want to do is write these <items> into seperate files, where the filenames is the #UNIQUE ID#. I want to write these little files into a map with the date in it. So for a date that is 22/03/07 I want the item-files in 220307\<item>.x ml .
I've got no clue how to do this. I can copy the items to a new XML tree using ElementTree, but can't figure out how to extract the elements for the XML and use it in file/map naming. Could anybody give me some pointers?

[ghostdog74]

you can use XML parsers that makes things easier for you,but I use regexp parsing ( or simple string manipulations) for this case.
As i don't understand the rest of the question, this little piece of code just get out the necessary information that you need between the "item" tag.

data = open("file").read()
pattern = re.compile("<item>(.*?)</item>",re.M|re.DOTALL)
for items in pattern.findall(data):
    filename = re.findall("<id>(.*?)</id>",items)[0]
    datetiming = re.findall("<datetime>(.*?)</datetime>",items)[0]
    title = re.findall("<title>(.*?)</title>",items)[0]
    desc = re.findall("<description>(.*?)</description>",items)[0]
    link = re.findall("<link>(.*?)</link>",items)[0]
print filename
print datetiming
print title
print desc
print link