Minidom getElementById not working

minidom, python, python-3.x, xml

Solution

If you want to get elements with name="node"

l.getElementsByTagName("node")

If you want to get elements with attribute having an attribute "id" with value "node", use xpath:

import xpath
xpath.find("//*['id=node']",l) #search for all elements with an attribute id="node"

Problem

Minidom's getElementById function is returning None for any entry I pass to it. For example, this code: ``` l = minidom.parseString('<node id="node">Node</node>') print(l.getElementById("node")) ``` Prints "None" on my computer. I must be doing something here wrong but I can't figure it out! I'm running Python 3.3.2 if that helps.

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