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xml.dom.minidom count how many tags of a specific type exist

I'm trying to work with the wolfram alpha api and I want to get a count back of how many <plaintext></plaintext> elements there are so I can run through them with dom.getElementsByTagName

Solution

  • Just use,

    dom.getElementsByTagName("plaintext").length

    getElementsByTagName() returns a NodeList which has a property length.

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