using "getElementsByTagName" to get tag <string name="ID"> in python -

my xml file is

<list>   <profiledefinition>     <string name="id">ncghwaznpy6</string>     <string name="name">02.11.2013 scott mobile</string>     <decimal name="accountid">10954</decimal>     <decimal name="timezoneid">-600</decimal>   </profiledefinition><profiledefinition>     <string name="id">9jsg57bruu6</string>     <string name="name">huggies us-en & ca-en test town responsive - prod</string>     <decimal name="accountid">10954</decimal>     <decimal name="timezoneid">-600</decimal>   </profiledefinition><profiledefinition>     <string name="id">i3cjq4gdkk6</string>     <string name="name">huggies us-en brand desktop - prod</string>     <decimal name="accountid">10954</decimal>     <decimal name="timezoneid">-600</decimal></profiledefinition> 

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my code is

import urllib2  theurl = 'https://ws.webtrends.com/v2/reportservice/profiles/?format=xml'     pagehandle = urllib2.urlopen(theurl)    ##########################################################################  xml.dom.minidom import parsestring  file = pagehandle   data = file.read()  file.close()  dom = parsestring(data)  xmltag = dom.getelementsbytagname('string name="id"')[0].toxml()  xmldata=xmltag.replace('<string name="id">','').replace('</string>','')  print xmltag  print xmldata 

i want value of element tagname 'string name="id"'

but error comes

traceback (most recent call last): file "c:\users\vaibhav\desktop\webtrends\test.py", line 43, in xmltag = dom.getelementsbytagname('string name="id"')[0].toxml() indexerror: list index out of range

if replace

dom.getelementsbytagname('string name="id"')[0].toxml()

to

dom.getelementsbytagname('string')[0].toxml()

the output comes

"ncghwaznpy6"

since first element of list second element is

"02.11.2013 scott mobile"

which saved in list dont want

however there 2 string tag name="id" , name="name" how access string tag name="id" only

string name="id" not tag name. string tag name.

you have compare name attribute value each string tag.

.... dom = parsestring(data) s in dom.getelementsbytagname('string'):     if s.getattribute('name') == 'id':         print s.childnodes[0].data 

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i recommed use lxml or beautifulsoup.

following equivalent code using lxml.

import lxml.html dom = lxml.html.fromstring(data) s in dom.cssselect('string[name=id]'):     print s.text