from xml.dom import minidom, Node
def scanNode(node, level = 0):
msg = node.__class__.__name__
if node.nodeType == Node.ELEMENT_NODE:
msg += ", tag: " + node.tagName
print " " * level * 4, msg
if node.hasChildNodes:
for child in node.childNodes:
scanNode(child, level + 1)
doc = minidom.parse('sample.xml')
scanNode(doc)