XML Parsing with Python and minidom

getElementsByTagName is recursive, you'll get all descendents with a matching tagName. Because your Topics contain other Topics that also have Titles, the call will get the lower-down Titles many times.

If you want to ask for all matching direct children only, and you don't have XPath available, you can write a simple filter, eg.:

def getChildrenByTagName(node, tagName):    for child in node.childNodes:        if child.nodeType==child.ELEMENT_NODE and (tagName=='*' or child.tagName==tagName):            yield childfor topic in document.getElementsByTagName('Topic'):    title= list(getChildrenByTagName('Title'))[0]         # or just get(...).next()    print title.firstChild.data

The following works:

import xml.dom.minidomfrom xml.dom.minidom import Nodedom = xml.dom.minidom.parse("docmap.xml")def getChildrenByTitle(node):    for child in node.childNodes:        if child.localName=='Title':            yield childTopic=dom.getElementsByTagName('Topic')for node in Topic:    alist=getChildrenByTitle(node)    for a in alist:        Title= a.childNodes[0].nodeValue        print Title

I think that can help

import osimport sysimport subprocessimport base64,xml.dom.minidomfrom xml.dom.minidom import Nodef = open("file.xml",'r')data = f.read()i = 0doc = xml.dom.minidom.parseString(data)for topic in doc.getElementsByTagName('Topic'):   title= doc.getElementsByTagName('Title')[i].firstChild.nodeValue   print title   i +=1

Output:

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