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Python & XML
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Python & XML

by Christopher A. Jones, Fred L. Drake
December 2001
Intermediate to advanced
380 pages
11h 54m
English
O'Reilly Media, Inc.
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Name

Node

Synopsis

The granddaddy of much of the DOM, the Node class carries quite a lot of information.

Node Constants

Node defines several constants that can be used by application writers to determine the node’s nodeType.

ELEMENT_NODE

An Element node

ATTRIBUTE_NODE

An Attr node

TEXT_NODE

A Text node

CDATA_SECTION_NODE

A CDATASection node

ENTITY_REFERENCE_NODE

An EntityReference node

ENTITY_NODE

An Entity node

PROCESSING_INSTRUCTION_NODE

A ProcessingInstruction node

COMMENT_NODE

A Comment node

DOCUMENT_NODE

A Document node

DOCUMENT_TYPE_NODE

A DocumentType node

DOCUMENT_FRAGMENT_NODE

A DocumentFragment node

NOTATION_NODE

A Notation node

Node Properties and Methods

attributes

This contains a NamedNodeMap that contain the attributes of this node, or the value is None.

childNodes

This contains a NodeList containing all children of this node. If no children exist then the list is empty.

firstChild

The first child of the node. A convenient attribute if you know the structure of the document. If the node has no children, this is None.

lastChild

Similar to its counterpart firstChild, but returns the last child node. If the node has no children, this is None.

localName

Returns the local part of the qualified name of the node.

namespaceURI

The namespace URI of the node or None if none exists.

nextSibling

The node immediately following this node or None if none exists.

nodeName

The name of the node, depending on its type. nodes of type Text and CharacterData do not have their own names, but rather just a string indicating that ...

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