Parsing Sample with DOM : DOM « XML « Python Tutorial

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2. XML
3. DOM

from xml.dom import minidom, Node
import re, textwrap

class SampleScanner:
    def __init__(self, doc):
        for child in doc.childNodes:
            if child.nodeType == Node.ELEMENT_NODE and child.tagName == 'book':
                self.handleBook(child)

    def gettext(self, nodelist):
        retlist = []
        for node in nodelist:
            if node.nodeType == Node.TEXT_NODE:
                retlist.append(node.wholeText)
            elif node.hasChildNodes:
                retlist.append(self.gettext(node.childNodes))

        return re.sub('\s+', ' ', ''.join(retlist))

    def handleBook(self, node):
        for child in node.childNodes:
            if child.nodeType != Node.ELEMENT_NODE:
                continue
            if child.tagName == 'title':
                print "Book title is:", self.gettext(child.childNodes)
            if child.tagName == 'author':
                self.handleAuthor(child)
            if child.tagName == 'chapter':
                self.handleChapter(child)

    def handleAuthor(self, node):
        for child in node.childNodes:
            if child.nodeType != Node.ELEMENT_NODE:
                continue
            if child.tagName == 'name':
                self.handleAuthorName(child)
            elif child.tagName == 'affiliation':
                print "Author affiliation:", self.gettext([child])

    def handleAuthorName(self, node):
        surname = self.gettext(node.getElementsByTagName("last"))
        givenname = self.gettext(node.getElementsByTagName("first"))
        print "Author Name: %s, %s" % (surname, givenname)

    def handleChapter(self, node):
        print " *** Start of Chapter %s: %s" % (node.getAttribute('number'),
             self.gettext(node.getElementsByTagName('title')))
        for child in node.childNodes:
            if child.nodeType != Node.ELEMENT_NODE:
                continue
            if child.tagName == 'para':
                self.handlePara(child)

    def handlePara(self, node):
        partext = self.gettext([node])
        partext = textwrap.fill(partext)
        print partext
        print

doc = minidom.parse('sample.xml') 
SampleScanner(doc)