Python: Using minidom to search for nodes with a certain text

Question

I am currently faced with XML that looks like this:

<ID>345754</ID>

This is contained within a hierarchy. I have parsed the xml, and wish to find the ID node by searching on "345754".

Answer 1

xmldoc = minidom.parse('your.xml')
matchingNodes = [node for node in xmldoc.getElementsByTagName("id") if node.nodeValue == '345754']

See also:

• How to get whole text of an Element in xml.minidom?
• All nodeValue fields are None when parsing XML