import xml.dom.minidom document = """\ Demo slideshow Slide title This is a demo Of a program for processing slides Another demo slide It is important To have more than one slide """ dom = xml.dom.minidom.parseString(document) def getText(nodelist): rc = "" for node in nodelist: if node.nodeType == node.TEXT_NODE: rc = rc + node.data return rc def handleSlideshow(slideshow): print("") handleSlideshowTitle(slideshow.getElementsByTagName("title")[0]) slides = slideshow.getElementsByTagName("slide") handleToc(slides) handleSlides(slides) print("") def handleSlides(slides): for slide in slides: handleSlide(slide) def handleSlide(slide): handleSlideTitle(slide.getElementsByTagName("title")[0]) handlePoints(slide.getElementsByTagName("point")) def handleSlideshowTitle(title): print("%s" % getText(title.childNodes)) def handleSlideTitle(title): print("

%s

" % getText(title.childNodes)) def handlePoints(points): print("") def handlePoint(point): print("
  • %s
  • " % getText(point.childNodes)) def handleToc(slides): for slide in slides: title = slide.getElementsByTagName("title")[0] print("

    %s

    " % getText(title.childNodes)) handleSlideshow(dom)