<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" ?> 
<employees>  
 <employee>  
  <name>l inux </name> 
  <age> 30 </age> 
 </employee> 
 <employee>  
  <name>windows </name> 
  <age> 20 </age> 
 </employee> 
</employees>

def TestMiniDom(): 
  from xml.dom import minidom 
  doc = minidom.parse( "employees.xml" ) 
  # get root element: <employees/> 
  root = doc.documentElement 
  # get all children elements: <employee/> <employee/> 
  employees = root.getElementsByTagName( "employee" ) 
  for employee in employees: 
    print ( " ------------------------------------------- " ) 
    # element name : employee 
    print (employee.nodeName) 
    # element xml content : <employee><name>windows</name><age>20</age></employee> 
    # basically equal to toprettyxml function 
    print (employee.toxml()) 
    nameNode = employee.getElementsByTagName( "name" )[0] 
    print (nameNode.childNodes) 
    print (nameNode.nodeName +  ":"  + nameNode.childNodes[0].nodeValue) 
    ageNode = employee.getElementsByTagName( "age" )[0] 
    print (ageNode.childNodes) 
    print (ageNode.nodeName +  ":"  + ageNode.childNodes[0].nodeValue) 
    print ( " ------------------------------------------- " ) 
    for n in employee.childNodes: 
      print (n) 
TestMiniDom() 

def CreateXml(): 
  import xml.dom.minidom 
  impl = xml.dom.minidom.getDOMImplementation() 
  dom = impl.createDocument(None, 'employees' , None) 
  root = dom.documentElement  
  employee = dom.createElement( 'employee' ) 
  root.appendChild(employee) 
  nameE = dom.createElement( 'name' ) 
  nameT = dom.createTextNode( 'linux' ) 
  nameE.appendChild(nameT) 
  employee.appendChild(nameE) 
  ageE = dom.createElement( 'age' ) 
  ageT = dom.createTextNode( '30' ) 
  ageE.appendChild(ageT) 
  employee.appendChild(ageE)
  f = open( 'employees2.xml' , 'w') 
  dom.writexml(f, addindent = ' ' , newl = '\n' ,encoding = 'utf-8' )
  f.close()  
CreateXml()