string manipulation.

[gerardob]

I am trying to read an xml using minidom from python library xml.dom

This is the xml file:
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<rm_structure>
<resources>
<resource>
AB
<Capacity>100</Capacity>
<NumberVirtualClasses>
2
</NumberVirtualClasses>
</resource>
</resources>
</rm_structure>
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This is the python code:
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from xml.dom import minidom
doc= minidom.parse("example.xml")
resources_section = doc.getElementsByTagName('resources')
list_resources = resources_section[0].getElementsByTagName('resource')

for r in list_resources:
name = r.childNodes[0].nodeValue
print name
print len(name)
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The problem is that the nodeValue stored in the variable 'name' is not "AB"
(what i want) but instead it is a string that has length of 8 and it seems
it include the tabs and/or other things.
How can i get the string "AB" without the other stuff?
Thanks.

 

[Neil Cerutti]

I am trying to read an xml using minidom from python library xml.dom

This is the xml file:
---------------------------------
<rm_structure>
<resources>
<resource>
AB
<Capacity>100</Capacity>
<NumberVirtualClasses>
2
</NumberVirtualClasses>
</resource>
</resources>
</rm_structure>
----------------------------------
This is the python code:
--------------------------------
from xml.dom import minidom
doc= minidom.parse("example.xml")
resources_section = doc.getElementsByTagName('resources')
list_resources = resources_section[0].getElementsByTagName('resource')

for r in list_resources:
name = r.childNodes[0].nodeValue
print name
print len(name)
---------------------------------
The problem is that the nodeValue stored in the variable 'name' is not "AB"
(what i want) but instead it is a string that has length of 8 and it seems
it include the tabs and/or other things.
How can i get the string "AB" without the other stuff?

Check out the strip member function.

name = r.childNodes[0].nodeValue.strip()