[Jython-users] problem with Xerces equals

[Richard C. <RC...@in...>]

I'm using the Xerces DOM parser. 
I'm trying to execute some code that only gets the first level of children
from a tree:

parent
  |
  +---->child1
  |      |
  |      +----->child3 
  |
  +---->child2

I only want to get child1 and child2.

so what I do is:

for node in parent.childNodes:
	if node.parentNode == parent:
		#do stuff

in jython the '==' comparison always fails.  Under Python the same code
works alright.

Any ideas?

Thanks,
Rich