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

The above answer is correct, namely:

name[0].firstChild.nodeValue

However for me, like others, my value was further down the tree:

name[0].firstChild.firstChild.nodeValue

To find this I used the following:

def scandown( elements, indent ):
    for el in elements:
        print("   " * indent + "nodeName: " + str(el.nodeName) )
        print("   " * indent + "nodeValue: " + str(el.nodeValue) )
        print("   " * indent + "childNodes: " + str(el.childNodes) )
        scandown(el.childNodes, indent + 1)

scandown( doc.getElementsByTagName('text'), 0 )

Running this for my simple SVG file created with Inkscape this gave me:

nodeName: text
nodeValue: None
childNodes: []
   nodeName: tspan
   nodeValue: None
   childNodes: []
      nodeName: #text
      nodeValue: MY STRING
      childNodes: ()
nodeName: text
nodeValue: None
childNodes: []
   nodeName: tspan
   nodeValue: None
   childNodes: []
      nodeName: #text
      nodeValue: MY WORDS
      childNodes: ()

I used xml.dom.minidom, the various fields are explained on this page, MiniDom Python.