Check Node type : Node Type « XML « Python Tutorial

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import pprint

import xml.dom.minidom
from xml.dom.minidom import Node

doc = xml.dom.minidom.parse("books.xml")

mapping = {}

for node in doc.getElementsByTagName("book"):
  isbn = node.getAttribute("isbn")
  L = node.getElementsByTagName("title")
  for node2 in L:
    title = ""
    for node3 in node2.childNodes:
      if node3.nodeType == Node.TEXT_NODE:
        title += node3.data
    mapping[isbn] = title

pprint.pprint(mapping)