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This example program is a fairly realistic example of a simple
program. In this particular case, we do not take much advantage
of the flexibility of the DOM.
<pre>import xml.dom.minidom
<title>Demo slideshow</title>
<slide><title>Slide title</title>
<point>This is a demo</point>
<point>Of a program for processing slides</point>
<slide><title>Another demo slide</title>
<point>It is important</point>
<point>To have more than</point>
<point>one slide</point>
dom = xml.dom.minidom.parseString(document)
if node.nodeType == node.TEXT_NODE:
def handleSlideshow(slideshow):
handleSlideshowTitle(slideshow.getElementsByTagName(
"title")[
0])
slides = slideshow.getElementsByTagName(
"slide")
def handleSlides(slides):
handleSlideTitle(slide.getElementsByTagName(
"title")[
0])
handlePoints(slide.getElementsByTagName(
"point"))
def handleSlideshowTitle(title):
print
"<title>%s</title>" % getText(title.childNodes)
def handleSlideTitle(title):
print
"<h2>%s</h2>" % getText(title.childNodes)
def handlePoints(points):
print
"<li>%s</li>" % getText(point.childNodes)
title = slide.getElementsByTagName(
"title")[
0]
print
"<p>%s</p>" % getText(title.childNodes)
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