Python Minidom Xml Parsing Dotted Quad/nested Children

I've got a gigantic list of varying objects I need to parse, and have multiple questions: The string values within XML I'm able to parse quite easily (hostname, color,class_name e

Solution 1:

I've been able to answer all of my questions except how to properly handle the network_group_object. I'll make another post for that specifically.

Here's my new code:

from xml.dom import minidom

net_xml = minidom.parse("network_objects.xml")

NetworkObjectsTag = net_xml.getElementsByTagName("network_objects")[0]

# Pull individual network objects
NetworkObjectTag = NetworkObjectsTag.getElementsByTagName("network_object")

for network_object in NetworkObjectTag:
name = network_object.getElementsByTagName("Name")[0].firstChild.data
class_name = network_object.getElementsByTagName("Class_Name")[0].firstChild.data
color = network_object.getElementsByTagName("color")[0].firstChild.data
ipElement = network_object.getElementsByTagName("ipaddr")
if ipElement:    
    ipElement = network_object.getElementsByTagName("ipaddr")[0]
    ipaddr = ipElement.firstChild.data
maskElement = network_object.getElementsByTagName("netmask")
if maskElement:
    maskElement = network_object.getElementsByTagName("netmask")[0]
    netmask = maskElement.firstChild.data
#address_ranges
ipaddr_firstElement = network_object.getElementsByTagName("ipaddr_first")
if ipaddr_firstElement:
    ipaddr_firstElement = network_object.getElementsByTagName("ipaddr_first")[0]
    ipaddr_first = ipaddr_firstElement.firstChild.data
ipaddr_lastElement = network_object.getElementsByTagName("ipaddr_last")
if ipaddr_lastElement:
    ipaddr_lastElement = network_object.getElementsByTagName("ipaddr_last")[0]
    ipaddr_last = ipaddr_lastElement.firstChild.data    
if ipaddr_firstElement:
    print(name,class_name,ipaddr,netmask,ipaddr_first,ipaddr_last,color)
else:
        print(name,class_name,ipaddr,netmask,color)