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    <p>I am fairly new to Python and am just trying to parse the results of a simple Web-API that returns the following XML-Syntax: </p> <pre><code>&lt;rss version='2.0'&gt; &lt;channel&gt; &lt;title&gt;www.onlinetvrecorder.com&lt;/title&gt; &lt;description&gt;OTR Torrents&lt;/description&gt; &lt;link&gt;http://www.onlinetvrecorder.com/&lt;/link&gt; &lt;copyright&gt;OTR&lt;/copyright&gt; &lt;STATIONS&gt; &lt;ITEM&gt; &lt;TITLE&gt;3SAT&lt;/TITLE&gt; &lt;COUNTRY&gt;DE&lt;/COUNTRY&gt; &lt;LANGUAGE&gt;DE&lt;/LANGUAGE&gt; &lt;/ITEM&gt; &lt;ITEM&gt; &lt;TITLE&gt;ANIXE&lt;/TITLE&gt; &lt;COUNTRY&gt;DE&lt;/COUNTRY&gt; &lt;LANGUAGE&gt;DE&lt;/LANGUAGE&gt; &lt;/ITEM&gt; &lt;ITEM&gt; &lt;TITLE&gt;ARD&lt;/TITLE&gt; &lt;COUNTRY&gt;DE&lt;/COUNTRY&gt; &lt;LANGUAGE&gt;DE&lt;/LANGUAGE&gt; &lt;/ITEM&gt; &lt;/STATIONS&gt; &lt;/channel&gt; &lt;/rss&gt; </code></pre> <p>My parser looks like that:</p> <pre><code>import xml.dom.minidom as dom def parseStations(stationsResult): document = dom.parse(stationsResult) stations = [] #get all ITEM elements and get their child TITLE items = document.getElementsByTagName("ITEM") for item in items: stationTitleNodeValue = item.getElementsByTagName("TITLE")[0].firstChild.data stations.append(stationTitleNodeValue); return stations </code></pre> <p>My intent is to get the text-value of the TITLE Elements in the xml. But when printing the contents of the return list to console, it looks like this:</p> <pre><code>&lt;DOM Element: TITLE at 0x368e8c0&gt; </code></pre> <p>What am I doing wrong? Can anybody of you help me? Thank you (VERY MUCH!) in advance,</p> <p>Christian</p>
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    1. COCalling your function with your data returns `[u'3SAT', u'ANIXE', u'ARD']` in Python 2.7 for me. Not sure why yours would be different.
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