Reading XML using Python minidom and iterating over each node

Question

I have an XML structure that looks like the following, but on a much larger scale:

Answer 1

Since you always have one text data value per author you can use element.firstChild.data

dom = parseString(document)
conferences = dom.getElementsByTagName("conference")

# Each conference here is a node
for conference in conferences:
    conference_name = conference.getAttribute("name")
    print 
    print conference_name.upper() + " - "

    authors = conference.getElementsByTagName("author")
    for author in authors:
        print "  ", author.firstChild.data
    # for

    print