#!/usr/bin/python from xml.dom import minidom import sys doc = minidom.parse(sys.argv[1]) def showCD(cd) : for item in cd.childNodes : if not item.nodeType == item.TEXT_NODE : print item.tagName, ": ", item.firstChild.data print 'CDs in my catalog: ' cds = doc.getElementsByTagName('cd') for item in cds: showCD(item)