Child nodes of XML nodes always have extra 0th node

Asked Apr 07 '15 at 14:27

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I am trying to parse the following XML node using Python's minidom.

<!-- Mapping of subjects -->
<root>
    <English>
       <key name = "Eng"></key>
    </English>
    <Maths>
        <key name = "Mathematics"></key>
    </Maths>
    <SocialScience>
      <key name = "Social"></key>
      <key name = "Scocial"></key>
    </SocialScience>
    <NameoftheStudent>
        <key name="Student's Name"></key>
        <key name = "StudentName"></key>
    </NameoftheStudent>
</root>

Following is the code for processing above XML:

xmldoc = minidom.parse('./templates/dictionary.xml')
root = xmldoc.getElementsByTagName('root')
for nodes in root:
    for node in nodes.childNodes:
        for x in node.childNodes:
            print "hello"

What I have realized is that whenever I am retrieving child nodes, it is giving me one extra child node.

edited Apr 07 '15 at 14:30

jonrsharpe

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asked Apr 07 '15 at 14:27

Indra Vikas

Have you looked at the objects? Do you get line break text nodes, e.g. ``? – jonrsharpe Apr 07 '15 at 14:34
I have put debugger and yes I am getting . – Indra Vikas Apr 07 '15 at 14:49
What should I not put line break? – Indra Vikas Apr 07 '15 at 14:53
Erm... what? Could you clarify exactly what the problem is? Can't you just ignore irrelevant nodes? – jonrsharpe Apr 07 '15 at 14:54
My question is that why is line break coming as childnode and how can ignore it? – Indra Vikas Apr 07 '15 at 14:58
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Have you read [the docs](https://docs.python.org/2/library/xml.dom.minidom.html)? – jonrsharpe Apr 07 '15 at 15:00
See [this answer](http://stackoverflow.com/a/16919069/8747). – Robᵩ Apr 07 '15 at 16:03

Child nodes of XML nodes always have extra 0th node

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