#! /usr/bin/env python

import urllib2
from xml.dom import minidom, Node

""" Get the XML """
url_info = urllib2.urlopen('http://rss.slashdot.org/Slashdot/slashdot')

if (url_info):
	""" We have the RSS XML lets try to parse it up """
	xmldoc = minidom.parse(url_info)
	if (xmldoc):
		"""We have the Doc, get the root node"""
		rootNode = xmldoc.documentElement
		""" Iterate the child nodes """
		for node in rootNode.childNodes:
			""" We only care about "item" entries"""
			if (node.nodeName == "item"):
				""" Now iterate through all of the <item>'s children """
				for item_node in node.childNodes:
					if (item_node.nodeName == "title"):
						""" Loop through the title Text nodes to get
						the actual title"""
						title = ""
						for text_node in item_node.childNodes:
							if (text_node.nodeType == node.TEXT_NODE):
								title += text_node.nodeValue
						""" Now print the title if we have one """
						if (len(title)>0):
							print title

					if (item_node.nodeName == "description"):
						""" Loop through the description Text nodes to get
						the actual description"""
						description = ""
						for text_node in item_node.childNodes:
							if (text_node.nodeType == node.TEXT_NODE):
								description += text_node.nodeValue
						""" Now print the title if we have one.
						Add a blank with \n so that it looks better """
						if (len(description)>0):
							print description + "\n"
	else:
		print "Error getting XML document!"
else:
	print "Error! Getting URL"