[Python-au] xml.dom.minidom

[Graeme Matthew]

Hi all, hope the weekend is going well.

I have a problem in trying to work out how minidom works. I have tried pyRXP 
but its not DOM or SAX based , I also found minidom ideal for what I want to 
do.

below is the beginnings of the class that I am developing. Im inheriting 
from object as I will be using __slots__ (just in case anyone asks :-))

This class processes an xml based order

At the moment I can get the root node then I want to extract the order 
details in the example below OrderId and Date. At the moment I am just 
sending

<Order>
<OrderId>12345</OrderId>
<Date>12/03/2002</date>
</Order>

from xml.dom.minidom import parseString
import Order
import OrderLine

class OrderMessageProcessor(object):

    def __init__ (self,data=None):

        self.order = Order.Order()
        self.data = data

    def processOrder(self):

        xmlTree = parseString(self.data)
        assert xmlTree.documentElement.tagname == 'Order'

        order = xmlTree.
        order = xmlTree.getElementsByTagName('Order')
        print order.item(1)
        #orderId = order.getElementsByTagName('OrderId')
        #print getText(orderId)

        #order = xmlTree.documentElement.tagName
        #print order.OrderId

        xmlTree.unlink()

any help would be most wlecome

cheers


graeme




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