Get Element value with minidom with Python

Question

I am creating a GUI frontend for the Eve Online API in Python.

I have successfully pulled the XML data from their server.

I am trying to grab the value from

Answer 1

I had a similar case, what worked for me was:

name.firstChild.childNodes[0].data

XML is supposed to be simple and it really is and I don't know why python's minidom did it so complicated... but it's how it's made

Answer 2

you can use something like this.It worked out for me

doc = parse('C:\\eve.xml')
my_node_list = doc.getElementsByTagName("name")
my_n_node = my_node_list[0]
my_child = my_n_node.firstChild
my_text = my_child.data 
print my_text

Answer 3

It should just be

name[0].firstChild.nodeValue