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<span id="xml-dom-minidom-minimal-dom-implementation"></span><h1>19.9. <a class="reference internal" href="#module-xml.dom.minidom" title="xml.dom.minidom: Minimal Document Object Model (DOM) implementation."><code class="xref py py-mod docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">xml.dom.minidom</span></code></a> — Minimal DOM implementation<a class="headerlink" href="#module-xml.dom.minidom" title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h1>
<div class="versionadded">
<p><span class="versionmodified added">New in version 2.0.</span></p>
</div>
<p><strong>Source code:</strong> <a class="reference external" href="https://github.com/python/cpython/tree/2.7/Lib/xml/dom/minidom.py">Lib/xml/dom/minidom.py</a></p>
<hr class="docutils" />
<p><a class="reference internal" href="#module-xml.dom.minidom" title="xml.dom.minidom: Minimal Document Object Model (DOM) implementation."><code class="xref py py-mod docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">xml.dom.minidom</span></code></a> is a minimal implementation of the Document Object
Model interface, with an API similar to that in other languages. It is intended
to be simpler than the full DOM and also significantly smaller. Users who are
not already proficient with the DOM should consider using the
<a class="reference internal" href="xml.etree.elementtree.html#module-xml.etree.ElementTree" title="xml.etree.ElementTree: Implementation of the ElementTree API."><code class="xref py py-mod docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">xml.etree.ElementTree</span></code></a> module for their XML processing instead.</p>
<div class="admonition warning">
<p class="admonition-title">Warning</p>
<p>The <a class="reference internal" href="#module-xml.dom.minidom" title="xml.dom.minidom: Minimal Document Object Model (DOM) implementation."><code class="xref py py-mod docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">xml.dom.minidom</span></code></a> module is not secure against
maliciously constructed data. If you need to parse untrusted or
unauthenticated data see <a class="reference internal" href="xml.html#xml-vulnerabilities"><span class="std std-ref">XML vulnerabilities</span></a>.</p>
</div>
<p>DOM applications typically start by parsing some XML into a DOM. With
<a class="reference internal" href="#module-xml.dom.minidom" title="xml.dom.minidom: Minimal Document Object Model (DOM) implementation."><code class="xref py py-mod docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">xml.dom.minidom</span></code></a>, this is done through the parse functions:</p>
<div class="highlight-default notranslate"><div class="highlight"><pre><span></span><span class="kn">from</span> <span class="nn">xml.dom.minidom</span> <span class="k">import</span> <span class="n">parse</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="n">parseString</span>
<span class="n">dom1</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="n">parse</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="s1">'c:</span><span class="se">\\</span><span class="s1">temp</span><span class="se">\\</span><span class="s1">mydata.xml'</span><span class="p">)</span> <span class="c1"># parse an XML file by name</span>
<span class="n">datasource</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="nb">open</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="s1">'c:</span><span class="se">\\</span><span class="s1">temp</span><span class="se">\\</span><span class="s1">mydata.xml'</span><span class="p">)</span>
<span class="n">dom2</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="n">parse</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">datasource</span><span class="p">)</span> <span class="c1"># parse an open file</span>
<span class="n">dom3</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="n">parseString</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="s1">'<myxml>Some data<empty/> some more data</myxml>'</span><span class="p">)</span>
</pre></div>
</div>
<p>The <a class="reference internal" href="#xml.dom.minidom.parse" title="xml.dom.minidom.parse"><code class="xref py py-func docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">parse()</span></code></a> function can take either a filename or an open file object.</p>
<dl class="function">
<dt id="xml.dom.minidom.parse">
<code class="descclassname">xml.dom.minidom.</code><code class="descname">parse</code><span class="sig-paren">(</span><em>filename_or_file</em><span class="optional">[</span>, <em>parser</em><span class="optional">[</span>, <em>bufsize</em><span class="optional">]</span><span class="optional">]</span><span class="sig-paren">)</span><a class="headerlink" href="#xml.dom.minidom.parse" title="Permalink to this definition">¶</a></dt>
<dd><p>Return a <code class="xref py py-class docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">Document</span></code> from the given input. <em>filename_or_file</em> may be
either a file name, or a file-like object. <em>parser</em>, if given, must be a SAX2
parser object. This function will change the document handler of the parser and
activate namespace support; other parser configuration (like setting an entity
resolver) must have been done in advance.</p>
</dd></dl>
<p>If you have XML in a string, you can use the <a class="reference internal" href="#xml.dom.minidom.parseString" title="xml.dom.minidom.parseString"><code class="xref py py-func docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">parseString()</span></code></a> function
instead:</p>
<dl class="function">
<dt id="xml.dom.minidom.parseString">
<code class="descclassname">xml.dom.minidom.</code><code class="descname">parseString</code><span class="sig-paren">(</span><em>string</em><span class="optional">[</span>, <em>parser</em><span class="optional">]</span><span class="sig-paren">)</span><a class="headerlink" href="#xml.dom.minidom.parseString" title="Permalink to this definition">¶</a></dt>
<dd><p>Return a <code class="xref py py-class docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">Document</span></code> that represents the <em>string</em>. This method creates a
<a class="reference internal" href="stringio.html#StringIO.StringIO" title="StringIO.StringIO"><code class="xref py py-class docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">StringIO</span></code></a> object for the string and passes that on to <a class="reference internal" href="#xml.dom.minidom.parse" title="xml.dom.minidom.parse"><code class="xref py py-func docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">parse()</span></code></a>.</p>
</dd></dl>
<p>Both functions return a <code class="xref py py-class docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">Document</span></code> object representing the content of the
document.</p>
<p>What the <a class="reference internal" href="#xml.dom.minidom.parse" title="xml.dom.minidom.parse"><code class="xref py py-func docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">parse()</span></code></a> and <a class="reference internal" href="#xml.dom.minidom.parseString" title="xml.dom.minidom.parseString"><code class="xref py py-func docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">parseString()</span></code></a> functions do is connect an XML
parser with a “DOM builder” that can accept parse events from any SAX parser and
convert them into a DOM tree. The name of the functions are perhaps misleading,
but are easy to grasp when learning the interfaces. The parsing of the document
will be completed before these functions return; it’s simply that these
functions do not provide a parser implementation themselves.</p>
<p>You can also create a <code class="xref py py-class docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">Document</span></code> by calling a method on a “DOM
Implementation” object. You can get this object either by calling the
<code class="xref py py-func docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">getDOMImplementation()</span></code> function in the <a class="reference internal" href="xml.dom.html#module-xml.dom" title="xml.dom: Document Object Model API for Python."><code class="xref py py-mod docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">xml.dom</span></code></a> package or the
<a class="reference internal" href="#module-xml.dom.minidom" title="xml.dom.minidom: Minimal Document Object Model (DOM) implementation."><code class="xref py py-mod docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">xml.dom.minidom</span></code></a> module. Using the implementation from the
<a class="reference internal" href="#module-xml.dom.minidom" title="xml.dom.minidom: Minimal Document Object Model (DOM) implementation."><code class="xref py py-mod docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">xml.dom.minidom</span></code></a> module will always return a <code class="xref py py-class docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">Document</span></code> instance
from the minidom implementation, while the version from <a class="reference internal" href="xml.dom.html#module-xml.dom" title="xml.dom: Document Object Model API for Python."><code class="xref py py-mod docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">xml.dom</span></code></a> may
provide an alternate implementation (this is likely if you have the <a class="reference external" href="http://pyxml.sourceforge.net/">PyXML
package</a> installed). Once you have a
<code class="xref py py-class docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">Document</span></code>, you can add child nodes to it to populate the DOM:</p>
<div class="highlight-default notranslate"><div class="highlight"><pre><span></span><span class="kn">from</span> <span class="nn">xml.dom.minidom</span> <span class="k">import</span> <span class="n">getDOMImplementation</span>
<span class="n">impl</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="n">getDOMImplementation</span><span class="p">()</span>
<span class="n">newdoc</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="n">impl</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">createDocument</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="kc">None</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="s2">"some_tag"</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="kc">None</span><span class="p">)</span>
<span class="n">top_element</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="n">newdoc</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">documentElement</span>
<span class="n">text</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="n">newdoc</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">createTextNode</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="s1">'Some textual content.'</span><span class="p">)</span>
<span class="n">top_element</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">appendChild</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">text</span><span class="p">)</span>
</pre></div>
</div>
<p>Once you have a DOM document object, you can access the parts of your XML
document through its properties and methods. These properties are defined in
the DOM specification. The main property of the document object is the
<code class="xref py py-attr docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">documentElement</span></code> property. It gives you the main element in the XML
document: the one that holds all others. Here is an example program:</p>
<div class="highlight-default notranslate"><div class="highlight"><pre><span></span><span class="n">dom3</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="n">parseString</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="s2">"<myxml>Some data</myxml>"</span><span class="p">)</span>
<span class="k">assert</span> <span class="n">dom3</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">documentElement</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">tagName</span> <span class="o">==</span> <span class="s2">"myxml"</span>
</pre></div>
</div>
<p>When you are finished with a DOM tree, you may optionally call the
<code class="xref py py-meth docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">unlink()</span></code> method to encourage early cleanup of the now-unneeded
objects. <code class="xref py py-meth docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">unlink()</span></code> is an <a class="reference internal" href="#module-xml.dom.minidom" title="xml.dom.minidom: Minimal Document Object Model (DOM) implementation."><code class="xref py py-mod docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">xml.dom.minidom</span></code></a>-specific
extension to the DOM API that renders the node and its descendants are
essentially useless. Otherwise, Python’s garbage collector will
eventually take care of the objects in the tree.</p>
<div class="admonition seealso">
<p class="admonition-title">See also</p>
<dl class="simple">
<dt><a class="reference external" href="https://www.w3.org/TR/REC-DOM-Level-1/">Document Object Model (DOM) Level 1 Specification</a></dt><dd><p>The W3C recommendation for the DOM supported by <a class="reference internal" href="#module-xml.dom.minidom" title="xml.dom.minidom: Minimal Document Object Model (DOM) implementation."><code class="xref py py-mod docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">xml.dom.minidom</span></code></a>.</p>
</dd>
</dl>
</div>
<div class="section" id="dom-objects">
<span id="minidom-objects"></span><h2>19.9.1. DOM Objects<a class="headerlink" href="#dom-objects" title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h2>
<p>The definition of the DOM API for Python is given as part of the <a class="reference internal" href="xml.dom.html#module-xml.dom" title="xml.dom: Document Object Model API for Python."><code class="xref py py-mod docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">xml.dom</span></code></a>
module documentation. This section lists the differences between the API and
<a class="reference internal" href="#module-xml.dom.minidom" title="xml.dom.minidom: Minimal Document Object Model (DOM) implementation."><code class="xref py py-mod docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">xml.dom.minidom</span></code></a>.</p>
<dl class="method">
<dt id="xml.dom.minidom.Node.unlink">
<code class="descclassname">Node.</code><code class="descname">unlink</code><span class="sig-paren">(</span><span class="sig-paren">)</span><a class="headerlink" href="#xml.dom.minidom.Node.unlink" title="Permalink to this definition">¶</a></dt>
<dd><p>Break internal references within the DOM so that it will be garbage collected on
versions of Python without cyclic GC. Even when cyclic GC is available, using
this can make large amounts of memory available sooner, so calling this on DOM
objects as soon as they are no longer needed is good practice. This only needs
to be called on the <code class="xref py py-class docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">Document</span></code> object, but may be called on child nodes
to discard children of that node.</p>
</dd></dl>
<dl class="method">
<dt id="xml.dom.minidom.Node.writexml">
<code class="descclassname">Node.</code><code class="descname">writexml</code><span class="sig-paren">(</span><em>writer</em>, <em>indent=""</em>, <em>addindent=""</em>, <em>newl=""</em><span class="sig-paren">)</span><a class="headerlink" href="#xml.dom.minidom.Node.writexml" title="Permalink to this definition">¶</a></dt>
<dd><p>Write XML to the writer object. The writer should have a <code class="xref py py-meth docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">write()</span></code> method
which matches that of the file object interface. The <em>indent</em> parameter is the
indentation of the current node. The <em>addindent</em> parameter is the incremental
indentation to use for subnodes of the current one. The <em>newl</em> parameter
specifies the string to use to terminate newlines.</p>
<p>For the <code class="xref py py-class docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">Document</span></code> node, an additional keyword argument <em>encoding</em> can
be used to specify the encoding field of the XML header.</p>
<div class="versionchanged">
<p><span class="versionmodified changed">Changed in version 2.1: </span>The optional keyword parameters <em>indent</em>, <em>addindent</em>, and <em>newl</em> were added to
support pretty output.</p>
</div>
<div class="versionchanged">
<p><span class="versionmodified changed">Changed in version 2.3: </span>For the <code class="xref py py-class docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">Document</span></code> node, an additional keyword argument
<em>encoding</em> can be used to specify the encoding field of the XML header.</p>
</div>
</dd></dl>
<dl class="method">
<dt id="xml.dom.minidom.Node.toxml">
<code class="descclassname">Node.</code><code class="descname">toxml</code><span class="sig-paren">(</span><span class="optional">[</span><em>encoding</em><span class="optional">]</span><span class="sig-paren">)</span><a class="headerlink" href="#xml.dom.minidom.Node.toxml" title="Permalink to this definition">¶</a></dt>
<dd><p>Return the XML that the DOM represents as a string.</p>
<p>With no argument, the XML header does not specify an encoding, and the result is
Unicode string if the default encoding cannot represent all characters in the
document. Encoding this string in an encoding other than UTF-8 is likely
incorrect, since UTF-8 is the default encoding of XML.</p>
<p>With an explicit <em>encoding</em> <a class="footnote-reference brackets" href="#id3" id="id1">1</a> argument, the result is a byte string in the
specified encoding. It is recommended that this argument is always specified. To
avoid <a class="reference internal" href="exceptions.html#exceptions.UnicodeError" title="exceptions.UnicodeError"><code class="xref py py-exc docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">UnicodeError</span></code></a> exceptions in case of unrepresentable text data, the
encoding argument should be specified as “utf-8”.</p>
<div class="versionchanged">
<p><span class="versionmodified changed">Changed in version 2.3: </span>the <em>encoding</em> argument was introduced; see <a class="reference internal" href="#xml.dom.minidom.Node.writexml" title="xml.dom.minidom.Node.writexml"><code class="xref py py-meth docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">writexml()</span></code></a>.</p>
</div>
</dd></dl>
<dl class="method">
<dt id="xml.dom.minidom.Node.toprettyxml">
<code class="descclassname">Node.</code><code class="descname">toprettyxml</code><span class="sig-paren">(</span><em>indent="\t"</em>, <em>newl="\n"</em>, <em>encoding=None</em><span class="sig-paren">)</span><a class="headerlink" href="#xml.dom.minidom.Node.toprettyxml" title="Permalink to this definition">¶</a></dt>
<dd><p>Return a pretty-printed version of the document. <em>indent</em> specifies the
indentation string and defaults to a tabulator; <em>newl</em> specifies the string
emitted at the end of each line and defaults to <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">\n</span></code>.</p>
<div class="versionadded">
<p><span class="versionmodified added">New in version 2.1.</span></p>
</div>
<div class="versionchanged">
<p><span class="versionmodified changed">Changed in version 2.3: </span>the encoding argument was introduced; see <a class="reference internal" href="#xml.dom.minidom.Node.writexml" title="xml.dom.minidom.Node.writexml"><code class="xref py py-meth docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">writexml()</span></code></a>.</p>
</div>
</dd></dl>
<p>The following standard DOM methods have special considerations with
<a class="reference internal" href="#module-xml.dom.minidom" title="xml.dom.minidom: Minimal Document Object Model (DOM) implementation."><code class="xref py py-mod docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">xml.dom.minidom</span></code></a>:</p>
<dl class="method">
<dt id="xml.dom.minidom.Node.cloneNode">
<code class="descclassname">Node.</code><code class="descname">cloneNode</code><span class="sig-paren">(</span><em>deep</em><span class="sig-paren">)</span><a class="headerlink" href="#xml.dom.minidom.Node.cloneNode" title="Permalink to this definition">¶</a></dt>
<dd><p>Although this method was present in the version of <a class="reference internal" href="#module-xml.dom.minidom" title="xml.dom.minidom: Minimal Document Object Model (DOM) implementation."><code class="xref py py-mod docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">xml.dom.minidom</span></code></a>
packaged with Python 2.0, it was seriously broken. This has been corrected for
subsequent releases.</p>
</dd></dl>
</div>
<div class="section" id="dom-example">
<span id="id2"></span><h2>19.9.2. DOM Example<a class="headerlink" href="#dom-example" title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h2>
<p>This example program is a fairly realistic example of a simple program. In this
particular case, we do not take much advantage of the flexibility of the DOM.</p>
<div class="highlight-default notranslate"><div class="highlight"><pre><span></span><span class="kn">import</span> <span class="nn">xml.dom.minidom</span>
<span class="n">document</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="s2">"""</span><span class="se">\</span>
<span class="s2"><slideshow></span>
<span class="s2"><title>Demo slideshow</title></span>
<span class="s2"><slide><title>Slide title</title></span>
<span class="s2"><point>This is a demo</point></span>
<span class="s2"><point>Of a program for processing slides</point></span>
<span class="s2"></slide></span>
<span class="s2"><slide><title>Another demo slide</title></span>
<span class="s2"><point>It is important</point></span>
<span class="s2"><point>To have more than</point></span>
<span class="s2"><point>one slide</point></span>
<span class="s2"></slide></span>
<span class="s2"></slideshow></span>
<span class="s2">"""</span>
<span class="n">dom</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="n">xml</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">dom</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">minidom</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">parseString</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">document</span><span class="p">)</span>
<span class="k">def</span> <span class="nf">getText</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">nodelist</span><span class="p">):</span>
<span class="n">rc</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="p">[]</span>
<span class="k">for</span> <span class="n">node</span> <span class="ow">in</span> <span class="n">nodelist</span><span class="p">:</span>
<span class="k">if</span> <span class="n">node</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">nodeType</span> <span class="o">==</span> <span class="n">node</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">TEXT_NODE</span><span class="p">:</span>
<span class="n">rc</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">append</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">node</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">data</span><span class="p">)</span>
<span class="k">return</span> <span class="s1">''</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">join</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">rc</span><span class="p">)</span>
<span class="k">def</span> <span class="nf">handleSlideshow</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">slideshow</span><span class="p">):</span>
<span class="nb">print</span> <span class="s2">"<html>"</span>
<span class="n">handleSlideshowTitle</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">slideshow</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">getElementsByTagName</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="s2">"title"</span><span class="p">)[</span><span class="mi">0</span><span class="p">])</span>
<span class="n">slides</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="n">slideshow</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">getElementsByTagName</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="s2">"slide"</span><span class="p">)</span>
<span class="n">handleToc</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">slides</span><span class="p">)</span>
<span class="n">handleSlides</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">slides</span><span class="p">)</span>
<span class="nb">print</span> <span class="s2">"</html>"</span>
<span class="k">def</span> <span class="nf">handleSlides</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">slides</span><span class="p">):</span>
<span class="k">for</span> <span class="n">slide</span> <span class="ow">in</span> <span class="n">slides</span><span class="p">:</span>
<span class="n">handleSlide</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">slide</span><span class="p">)</span>
<span class="k">def</span> <span class="nf">handleSlide</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">slide</span><span class="p">):</span>
<span class="n">handleSlideTitle</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">slide</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">getElementsByTagName</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="s2">"title"</span><span class="p">)[</span><span class="mi">0</span><span class="p">])</span>
<span class="n">handlePoints</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">slide</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">getElementsByTagName</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="s2">"point"</span><span class="p">))</span>
<span class="k">def</span> <span class="nf">handleSlideshowTitle</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">title</span><span class="p">):</span>
<span class="nb">print</span> <span class="s2">"<title></span><span class="si">%s</span><span class="s2"></title>"</span> <span class="o">%</span> <span class="n">getText</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">title</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">childNodes</span><span class="p">)</span>
<span class="k">def</span> <span class="nf">handleSlideTitle</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">title</span><span class="p">):</span>
<span class="nb">print</span> <span class="s2">"<h2></span><span class="si">%s</span><span class="s2"></h2>"</span> <span class="o">%</span> <span class="n">getText</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">title</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">childNodes</span><span class="p">)</span>
<span class="k">def</span> <span class="nf">handlePoints</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">points</span><span class="p">):</span>
<span class="nb">print</span> <span class="s2">"<ul>"</span>
<span class="k">for</span> <span class="n">point</span> <span class="ow">in</span> <span class="n">points</span><span class="p">:</span>
<span class="n">handlePoint</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">point</span><span class="p">)</span>
<span class="nb">print</span> <span class="s2">"</ul>"</span>
<span class="k">def</span> <span class="nf">handlePoint</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">point</span><span class="p">):</span>
<span class="nb">print</span> <span class="s2">"<li></span><span class="si">%s</span><span class="s2"></li>"</span> <span class="o">%</span> <span class="n">getText</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">point</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">childNodes</span><span class="p">)</span>
<span class="k">def</span> <span class="nf">handleToc</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">slides</span><span class="p">):</span>
<span class="k">for</span> <span class="n">slide</span> <span class="ow">in</span> <span class="n">slides</span><span class="p">:</span>
<span class="n">title</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="n">slide</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">getElementsByTagName</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="s2">"title"</span><span class="p">)[</span><span class="mi">0</span><span class="p">]</span>
<span class="nb">print</span> <span class="s2">"<p></span><span class="si">%s</span><span class="s2"></p>"</span> <span class="o">%</span> <span class="n">getText</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">title</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">childNodes</span><span class="p">)</span>
<span class="n">handleSlideshow</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">dom</span><span class="p">)</span>
</pre></div>
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<span id="minidom-and-dom"></span><h2>19.9.3. minidom and the DOM standard<a class="headerlink" href="#minidom-and-the-dom-standard" title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h2>
<p>The <a class="reference internal" href="#module-xml.dom.minidom" title="xml.dom.minidom: Minimal Document Object Model (DOM) implementation."><code class="xref py py-mod docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">xml.dom.minidom</span></code></a> module is essentially a DOM 1.0-compatible DOM with
some DOM 2 features (primarily namespace features).</p>
<p>Usage of the DOM interface in Python is straight-forward. The following mapping
rules apply:</p>
<ul class="simple">
<li><p>Interfaces are accessed through instance objects. Applications should not
instantiate the classes themselves; they should use the creator functions
available on the <code class="xref py py-class docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">Document</span></code> object. Derived interfaces support all
operations (and attributes) from the base interfaces, plus any new operations.</p></li>
<li><p>Operations are used as methods. Since the DOM uses only <a class="reference internal" href="../reference/expressions.html#in"><code class="xref std std-keyword docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">in</span></code></a>
parameters, the arguments are passed in normal order (from left to right).
There are no optional arguments. <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">void</span></code> operations return <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">None</span></code>.</p></li>
<li><p>IDL attributes map to instance attributes. For compatibility with the OMG IDL
language mapping for Python, an attribute <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">foo</span></code> can also be accessed through
accessor methods <code class="xref py py-meth docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">_get_foo()</span></code> and <code class="xref py py-meth docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">_set_foo()</span></code>. <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">readonly</span></code>
attributes must not be changed; this is not enforced at runtime.</p></li>
<li><p>The types <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">short</span> <span class="pre">int</span></code>, <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">unsigned</span> <span class="pre">int</span></code>, <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">unsigned</span> <span class="pre">long</span> <span class="pre">long</span></code>, and
<code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">boolean</span></code> all map to Python integer objects.</p></li>
<li><p>The type <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">DOMString</span></code> maps to Python strings. <a class="reference internal" href="#module-xml.dom.minidom" title="xml.dom.minidom: Minimal Document Object Model (DOM) implementation."><code class="xref py py-mod docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">xml.dom.minidom</span></code></a> supports
either byte or Unicode strings, but will normally produce Unicode strings.
Values of type <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">DOMString</span></code> may also be <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">None</span></code> where allowed to have the IDL
<code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">null</span></code> value by the DOM specification from the W3C.</p></li>
<li><p><code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">const</span></code> declarations map to variables in their respective scope (e.g.
<code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">xml.dom.minidom.Node.PROCESSING_INSTRUCTION_NODE</span></code>); they must not be changed.</p></li>
<li><p><code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">DOMException</span></code> is currently not supported in <a class="reference internal" href="#module-xml.dom.minidom" title="xml.dom.minidom: Minimal Document Object Model (DOM) implementation."><code class="xref py py-mod docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">xml.dom.minidom</span></code></a>.
Instead, <a class="reference internal" href="#module-xml.dom.minidom" title="xml.dom.minidom: Minimal Document Object Model (DOM) implementation."><code class="xref py py-mod docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">xml.dom.minidom</span></code></a> uses standard Python exceptions such as
<a class="reference internal" href="exceptions.html#exceptions.TypeError" title="exceptions.TypeError"><code class="xref py py-exc docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">TypeError</span></code></a> and <a class="reference internal" href="exceptions.html#exceptions.AttributeError" title="exceptions.AttributeError"><code class="xref py py-exc docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">AttributeError</span></code></a>.</p></li>
<li><p><code class="xref py py-class docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">NodeList</span></code> objects are implemented using Python’s built-in list type.
Starting with Python 2.2, these objects provide the interface defined in the DOM
specification, but with earlier versions of Python they do not support the
official API. They are, however, much more “Pythonic” than the interface
defined in the W3C recommendations.</p></li>
</ul>
<p>The following interfaces have no implementation in <a class="reference internal" href="#module-xml.dom.minidom" title="xml.dom.minidom: Minimal Document Object Model (DOM) implementation."><code class="xref py py-mod docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">xml.dom.minidom</span></code></a>:</p>
<ul class="simple">
<li><p><code class="xref py py-class docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">DOMTimeStamp</span></code></p></li>
<li><p><code class="xref py py-class docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">DocumentType</span></code> (added in Python 2.1)</p></li>
<li><p><code class="xref py py-class docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">DOMImplementation</span></code> (added in Python 2.1)</p></li>
<li><p><code class="xref py py-class docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">CharacterData</span></code></p></li>
<li><p><code class="xref py py-class docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">CDATASection</span></code></p></li>
<li><p><code class="xref py py-class docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">Notation</span></code></p></li>
<li><p><code class="xref py py-class docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">Entity</span></code></p></li>
<li><p><code class="xref py py-class docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">EntityReference</span></code></p></li>
<li><p><code class="xref py py-class docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">DocumentFragment</span></code></p></li>
</ul>
<p>Most of these reflect information in the XML document that is not of general
utility to most DOM users.</p>
<p class="rubric">Footnotes</p>
<dl class="footnote brackets">
<dt class="label" id="id3"><span class="brackets"><a class="fn-backref" href="#id1">1</a></span></dt>
<dd><p>The encoding string included in XML output should conform to the
appropriate standards. For example, “UTF-8” is valid, but “UTF8” is
not. See <a class="reference external" href="https://www.w3.org/TR/2006/REC-xml11-20060816/#NT-EncodingDecl">https://www.w3.org/TR/2006/REC-xml11-20060816/#NT-EncodingDecl</a>
and <a class="reference external" href="https://www.iana.org/assignments/character-sets/character-sets.xhtml">https://www.iana.org/assignments/character-sets/character-sets.xhtml</a>.</p>
</dd>
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