re : Python - ParsedXML - Optimizations

I've written some simple python to fetch data in nodes from a ParsedXML
document.

The problem I am having is trying to figure out how many nodes are in an
XML document.

Below is my code that reads in the nodes.=20

It actually works somehow!=20

However at the moment I am checking the data in every node to see if it
is an end tag which kind of sucks :)=20

What is exposed in ParsedXML to tell me how many nodes I have?

### Python to read in Nodes ...=20

import string
a =3D 0;
b =3D 0;
i =3D 0;
cell =3D 0;

print "<tr>";

obj =3D getattr(context, name);

while ( a =3D=3D 0 ):=20
   =20
    objb =3D  obj.childNodes[0][i];=20
    i =3D i + 1;
       =20
    myobj =3D str(objb.firstChild);        =20

    if  myobj[9:len(myobj)-3] =3D=3D "xml-end" : a =3D 1;

    if  myobj[9:len(myobj)-3] =3D=3D "." : b =3D 1;

    if ( a =3D=3D 0 ):       =20
        if ( len(myobj) > 2 ) : =20
             cell =3D cell + 1;
            =20
             if ( b =3D=3D 0 ) : print "<td bgcolor=3D",color,"><p>" ,
myobj[9:len(myobj)-3] , "</p></td>";
             if ( b =3D=3D 1 ) : print "<td =
bgcolor=3D",color,"><p></p></td>";

             b =3D 0;

             if ( cell =3D=3D 6 ) :=20
                 print "</tr><tr>";
                 cell =3D 0;     =20


return printed;

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