XML DOM - Document Object Model

import xml.dom.minidom
import sys

if len(sys.argv) != 2:
    exit(f"Usage: {sys.argv[0]} FILENAME")

file = sys.argv[1]

dom = xml.dom.minidom.parse(file)

root = dom.firstChild
print(root.tagName)

print('')

for node in root.childNodes:
    if node.nodeType != node.TEXT_NODE:
        print('name: ', node.tagName)
        print('id: ', node.getAttribute('id'))

print('')

emails = dom.getElementsByTagName("email")
for e in emails:
    print('email', e.getAttribute('id'), e.firstChild.data)

main

name:  person
id:  1
name:  person
id:  3

email home moo@zorghome.com
email work moo@work.com

• xml.dom
• xml.dom.minidom