minidom.py -- a lightweight DOM implementation.
 
parse("foo.xml")
 
parseString("<foo><bar/></foo>")
 
Todo:
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 * convenience methods for getting elements and text.
 * more testing
 * bring some of the writer and linearizer code into conformance with this
        interface
 * SAX 2 namespaces

Modules
		string xml

Classes
		DOMImplementation NamedNodeMap xml.dom.Node Node Attr CharacterData Text CDATASection Comment Document DocumentFragment DocumentType Element ProcessingInstruction   class Attr(Node)            __getattr__(self, key) from Node __init__(self, qName, namespaceURI='', localName=None, prefix=None) __nonzero__(self) from Node __setattr__(self, name, value) _get_firstChild(self) from Node _get_lastChild(self) from Node appendChild(self, node) from Node cloneNode(self, deep) hasChildNodes(self) from Node insertBefore(self, newChild, refChild) from Node isSameNode(self, other) from Node normalize(self) from Node removeChild(self, oldChild) from Node replaceChild(self, newChild, oldChild) from Node toprettyxml(self, indent='\t', newl='\n') from Node toxml(self) from Node unlink(self) from Node   AttributeList = class NamedNodeMap       The attribute list is a transient interface to the underlying dictionaries.  Mutations here will change the underlying element's dictionary.   Ordering is imposed artificially and does not reflect the order of attributes as found in an input document.      __cmp__(self, other) __delitem__(self, attname_or_tuple) __getattr__(self, name) __getitem__(self, attname_or_tuple) #FIXME: is it appropriate to return .value? __init__(self, attrs, attrsNS) __len__(self) __setitem__(self, attname, value) # same as set get(self, name, value=None) item(self, index) items(self) itemsNS(self) keys(self) keysNS(self) setNamedItem(self, node) setNamedItemNS(self, node) values(self)   class CDATASection(Text)            __getattr__(self, key) from Node __init__(self, data) from CharacterData __nonzero__(self) from Node __repr__(self) from CharacterData _get_firstChild(self) from Node _get_lastChild(self) from Node appendChild(self, node) from Node appendData(self, arg) from CharacterData cloneNode(self, deep) from Node deleteData(self, offset, count) from CharacterData hasChildNodes(self) from Node insertBefore(self, newChild, refChild) from Node insertData(self, offset, arg) from CharacterData isSameNode(self, other) from Node normalize(self) from Node removeChild(self, oldChild) from Node replaceChild(self, newChild, oldChild) from Node replaceData(self, offset, count, arg) from CharacterData splitText(self, offset) from Text substringData(self, offset, count) from CharacterData toprettyxml(self, indent='\t', newl='\n') from Node toxml(self) from Node unlink(self) from Node writexml(self, writer, indent='', addindent='', newl='')   class CharacterData(Node)            __getattr__(self, key) from Node __init__(self, data) __nonzero__(self) from Node __repr__(self) _get_firstChild(self) from Node _get_lastChild(self) from Node appendChild(self, node) from Node appendData(self, arg) cloneNode(self, deep) from Node deleteData(self, offset, count) hasChildNodes(self) from Node insertBefore(self, newChild, refChild) from Node insertData(self, offset, arg) isSameNode(self, other) from Node normalize(self) from Node removeChild(self, oldChild) from Node replaceChild(self, newChild, oldChild) from Node replaceData(self, offset, count, arg) substringData(self, offset, count) toprettyxml(self, indent='\t', newl='\n') from Node toxml(self) from Node unlink(self) from Node   class Comment(Node)            __getattr__(self, key) from Node __init__(self, data) __nonzero__(self) from Node _get_firstChild(self) from Node _get_lastChild(self) from Node appendChild(self, node) from Node cloneNode(self, deep) from Node hasChildNodes(self) from Node insertBefore(self, newChild, refChild) from Node isSameNode(self, other) from Node normalize(self) from Node removeChild(self, oldChild) from Node replaceChild(self, newChild, oldChild) from Node toprettyxml(self, indent='\t', newl='\n') from Node toxml(self) from Node unlink(self) from Node writexml(self, writer, indent='', addindent='', newl='')   class DOMImplementation            _createDocument(self) # internal createDocument(self, namespaceURI, qualifiedName, doctype) createDocumentType(self, qualifiedName, publicId, systemId) hasFeature(self, feature, version)   class Document(Node)            __getattr__(self, key) from Node __init__(self) from Node __nonzero__(self) from Node _get_documentElement(self) _get_firstChild(self) from Node _get_lastChild(self) from Node appendChild(self, node) cloneNode(self, deep) from Node createAttribute(self, qName) createAttributeNS(self, namespaceURI, qualifiedName) createCDATASection(self, data) createComment(self, data) createDocumentFragment(self) createElement(self, tagName) createElementNS(self, namespaceURI, qualifiedName) createProcessingInstruction(self, target, data) createTextNode(self, data) getElementsByTagName(self, name) getElementsByTagNameNS(self, namespaceURI, localName) hasChildNodes(self) from Node insertBefore(self, newChild, refChild) from Node isSameNode(self, other) from Node normalize(self) from Node removeChild(self, oldChild) replaceChild(self, newChild, oldChild) from Node toprettyxml(self, indent='\t', newl='\n') from Node toxml(self) from Node unlink(self) writexml(self, writer, indent='', addindent='', newl='')   class DocumentFragment(Node)            __getattr__(self, key) from Node __init__(self) from Node __nonzero__(self) from Node _get_firstChild(self) from Node _get_lastChild(self) from Node appendChild(self, node) from Node cloneNode(self, deep) from Node hasChildNodes(self) from Node insertBefore(self, newChild, refChild) from Node isSameNode(self, other) from Node normalize(self) from Node removeChild(self, oldChild) from Node replaceChild(self, newChild, oldChild) from Node toprettyxml(self, indent='\t', newl='\n') from Node toxml(self) from Node unlink(self) from Node   class DocumentType(Node)            __getattr__(self, key) from Node __init__(self, qualifiedName) __nonzero__(self) from Node _get_firstChild(self) from Node _get_lastChild(self) from Node appendChild(self, node) from Node cloneNode(self, deep) from Node hasChildNodes(self) from Node insertBefore(self, newChild, refChild) from Node isSameNode(self, other) from Node normalize(self) from Node removeChild(self, oldChild) from Node replaceChild(self, newChild, oldChild) from Node toprettyxml(self, indent='\t', newl='\n') from Node toxml(self) from Node unlink(self) from Node   class Element(Node)            __getattr__(self, key) from Node __init__(self, tagName, namespaceURI=None, prefix='', localName=None) __nonzero__(self) from Node __repr__(self) _get_attributes(self) _get_firstChild(self) from Node _get_lastChild(self) from Node appendChild(self, node) from Node cloneNode(self, deep) getAttribute(self, attname) getAttributeNS(self, namespaceURI, localName) getAttributeNode(self, attrname) getAttributeNodeNS(self, namespaceURI, localName) getElementsByTagName(self, name) getElementsByTagNameNS(self, namespaceURI, localName) hasAttribute(self, name) hasAttributeNS(self, namespaceURI, localName) hasAttributes(self) hasChildNodes(self) from Node insertBefore(self, newChild, refChild) from Node isSameNode(self, other) from Node normalize(self) from Node removeAttribute(self, name) removeAttributeNS(self, namespaceURI, localName) removeAttributeNode(self, node) removeAttributeNodeNS = removeAttributeNode(self, node) removeChild(self, oldChild) from Node replaceChild(self, newChild, oldChild) from Node setAttribute(self, attname, value) setAttributeNS(self, namespaceURI, qualifiedName, value) setAttributeNode(self, attr) setAttributeNodeNS = setAttributeNode(self, attr) toprettyxml(self, indent='\t', newl='\n') from Node toxml(self) from Node unlink(self) writexml(self, writer, indent='', addindent='', newl='')   class NamedNodeMap       The attribute list is a transient interface to the underlying dictionaries.  Mutations here will change the underlying element's dictionary.   Ordering is imposed artificially and does not reflect the order of attributes as found in an input document.      __cmp__(self, other) __delitem__(self, attname_or_tuple) __getattr__(self, name) __getitem__(self, attname_or_tuple) #FIXME: is it appropriate to return .value? __init__(self, attrs, attrsNS) __len__(self) __setitem__(self, attname, value) # same as set get(self, name, value=None) item(self, index) items(self) itemsNS(self) keys(self) keysNS(self) setNamedItem(self, node) setNamedItemNS(self, node) values(self)   class Node(xml.dom.Node)            __getattr__(self, key) __init__(self) __nonzero__(self) _get_firstChild(self) _get_lastChild(self) appendChild(self, node) cloneNode(self, deep) hasChildNodes(self) insertBefore(self, newChild, refChild) isSameNode(self, other) normalize(self) removeChild(self, oldChild) replaceChild(self, newChild, oldChild) toprettyxml(self, indent='\t', newl='\n') toxml(self) unlink(self)   class ProcessingInstruction(Node)            __getattr__(self, key) from Node __init__(self, target, data) __nonzero__(self) from Node _get_firstChild(self) from Node _get_lastChild(self) from Node appendChild(self, node) from Node cloneNode(self, deep) from Node hasChildNodes(self) from Node insertBefore(self, newChild, refChild) from Node isSameNode(self, other) from Node normalize(self) from Node removeChild(self, oldChild) from Node replaceChild(self, newChild, oldChild) from Node toprettyxml(self, indent='\t', newl='\n') from Node toxml(self) from Node unlink(self) from Node writexml(self, writer, indent='', addindent='', newl='')   class Text(CharacterData)            __getattr__(self, key) from Node __init__(self, data) from CharacterData __nonzero__(self) from Node __repr__(self) from CharacterData _get_firstChild(self) from Node _get_lastChild(self) from Node appendChild(self, node) from Node appendData(self, arg) from CharacterData cloneNode(self, deep) from Node deleteData(self, offset, count) from CharacterData hasChildNodes(self) from Node insertBefore(self, newChild, refChild) from Node insertData(self, offset, arg) from CharacterData isSameNode(self, other) from Node normalize(self) from Node removeChild(self, oldChild) from Node replaceChild(self, newChild, oldChild) from Node replaceData(self, offset, count, arg) from CharacterData splitText(self, offset) substringData(self, offset, count) from CharacterData toprettyxml(self, indent='\t', newl='\n') from Node toxml(self) from Node unlink(self) from Node writexml(self, writer, indent='', addindent='', newl='')

Functions
		_doparse(func, args, kwargs) _getElementsByTagNameHelper(parent, name, rc) _getElementsByTagNameNSHelper(parent, nsURI, localName, rc) _get_StringIO() _nssplit(qualifiedName) _write_data(writer, data) Writes datachars to writer. getDOMImplementation() parse(*args, **kwargs) Parse a file into a DOM by filename or file object. parseString(*args, **kwargs) Parse a file into a DOM from a string.

Data
		_StringTypes = (<type 'string'>, <type 'unicode'>) _TupleType = <type 'tuple'> __file__ = '/usr/lib/python2.1/xml/dom/minidom.pyc' __name__ = 'xml.dom.minidom'