How to use the xmlelement.XMLElement function in XmlElement

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#	\remarks	Defines the way to parse XML library information
#	
#	\author		beta@blur.com
#	\author		Blur Studio
#	\date		04/09/10
#

import os
import xml.dom.minidom

from xmlelement import XMLElement
from PyQt4.QtCore import QString


class XMLDocument(XMLElement):
	""" class to ease the handling of XML documents """
	
	def __init__(self, object=None):
		if (not object):
			object = xml.dom.minidom.Document()
		XMLElement.__init__(self, object)
		self.__file__ = ''
		# TODO: Remove when all uses are gone, should no longer be needed
		self.escapeDict = {}

	def findElementById(self, childId):
		split = child.split('::')
		outTemplate = None
		if (split):
			outTemplate = self.root().findChildById(split[0])
			index = 1

def root(self):
		"""Returns the root xml node for this document.

		"""
		if (self._object and self._object.childNodes):
			return XMLElement(self._object.childNodes[0], self.__file__)
		return None