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

I played around with it a bit, and here's what I got to work:

# ...
authortext= a.childNodes[0].nodeValue
print authortext

leading to output of:

C:\temp\py>xml2.py
1
Bob
Nigel
2
Alice
Mary

I can't tell you exactly why you have to access the childNode to get the inner text, but at least that's what you were looking for.