I have this sample xml document snippet

<root><foo>bar</foo><foo>baz</foo>
</root>

I'm using python's minidom method from xml.dom. I am reading in tags with getElementsByTagName("foo"). How do I get the text between the tags? And if the tags were nested, how would I get those?

So if you need to get the text out then you can do the following:

import xml.dom.minidom
document = "<root><foo>bar</foo><foo>baby</foo></root>"
dom = xml.dom.minidom.parseString(document)def getText(nodelist):rc = []for node in nodelist:if node.nodeType == node.TEXT_NODE:rc.append(node.data)return ''.join(rc)def handleTok(tokenlist):texts = ""for token in tokenlist:texts += " "+ getText(token.childNodes)return texts
foo = dom.getElementsByTagName("foo")
text = handleTok(foo)
print text

They have a good example on the site: http://docs.python.org/library/xml.dom.minidom.html

EDIT: For nested tags, check the example on the site.