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In this particular case, we do not take much advantage of the flexibility of the DOM. <P> <div class="verbatim"> <pre>import xml.dom.minidom document = """\ <slideshow> <title>Demo slideshow</title> <slide><title>Slide title</title> <point>This is a demo</point> <point>Of a program for processing slides</point> </slide> <slide><title>Another demo slide</title> <point>It is important</point> <point>To have more than</point> <point>one slide</point> </slide> </slideshow> """ dom = xml.dom.minidom.parseString(document) def getText(nodelist): rc = "" for node in nodelist: if node.nodeType == node.TEXT_NODE: rc = rc + node.data return rc def handleSlideshow(slideshow): print "<html>" handleSlideshowTitle(slideshow.getElementsByTagName("title")[0]) slides = slideshow.getElementsByTagName("slide") handleToc(slides) handleSlides(slides) print "</html>" def handleSlides(slides): for slide in slides: handleSlide(slide) def handleSlide(slide): handleSlideTitle(slide.getElementsByTagName("title")[0]) handlePoints(slide.getElementsByTagName("point")) def handleSlideshowTitle(title): print "<title>%s</title>" % getText(title.childNodes) def handleSlideTitle(title): print "<h2>%s</h2>" % getText(title.childNodes) def handlePoints(points): print "<ul>" for point in points: handlePoint(point) print "</ul>" def handlePoint(point): print "<li>%s</li>" % getText(point.childNodes) def handleToc(slides): for slide in slides: title = slide.getElementsByTagName("title")[0] print "<p>%s</p>" % getText(title.childNodes) handleSlideshow(dom) </pre> <div class="footer"> <a href="minidom-example.txt" type="text/plain">Download as text (original file name: <span class="file">minidom-example.py</span>).</a> </div></div> <P> <DIV CLASS="navigation"> <div class='online-navigation'><hr /> <table align="center" width="100%" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="2"> <tr> <td class='online-navigation'><a rel="prev" title="13.7.1 DOM Objects" rel="prev" title="13.7.1 DOM Objects" href="dom-objects.html"><img src='../icons/previous.png' border='0' height='32' alt='Previous Page' width='32' /></A></td> <td class='online-navigation'><a rel="parent" title="13.7 xml.dom.minidom " rel="parent" title="13.7 xml.dom.minidom " href="module-xml.dom.minidom.html"><img src='../icons/up.png' border='0' height='32' alt='Up One Level' width='32' /></A></td> <td class='online-navigation'><a rel="next" title="13.7.3 minidom and the" rel="next" title="13.7.3 minidom and the" href="minidom-and-dom.html"><img src='../icons/next.png' border='0' height='32' alt='Next Page' width='32' /></A></td> <td align="center" width="100%">Python Library Reference</td> <td class='online-navigation'><a rel="contents" title="Table of Contents" rel="contents" title="Table of Contents" href="contents.html"><img src='../icons/contents.png' border='0' height='32' alt='Contents' width='32' /></A></td> <td class='online-navigation'><a href="modindex.html" title="Module Index"><img src='../icons/modules.png' border='0' height='32' alt='Module Index' width='32' /></a></td> <td class='online-navigation'><a rel="index" title="Index" rel="index" title="Index" href="genindex.html"><img src='../icons/index.png' border='0' height='32' alt='Index' width='32' /></A></td> </tr></table> <div class='online-navigation'> <b class="navlabel">Previous:</b> <a class="sectref" rel="prev" href="dom-objects.html">13.7.1 DOM Objects</A> <b class="navlabel">Up:</b> <a class="sectref" rel="parent" href="module-xml.dom.minidom.html">13.7 xml.dom.minidom </A> <b class="navlabel">Next:</b> <a class="sectref" rel="next" href="minidom-and-dom.html">13.7.3 minidom and the</A> </div> </div> <hr /> <span class="release-info">Release 2.3.4, documentation updated on May 20, 2004.</span> </DIV> <!--End of Navigation Panel--> <ADDRESS> See <i><a href="about.html">About this document...</a></i> for information on suggesting changes. </ADDRESS> </BODY> </HTML>