Minidom getElementById not working
Question: 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.


Answer: 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](https://code.google.com/p/py-dom-xpath/):

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

