Get node name with minidom

Is it possible to get the name of a node using minidom?

For example I have a node:

<heading><![CDATA[5 year]]></heading>

What I'm trying to do, is store the value heading so that I can use it as a key in a dictionary.

The closest I can get is something like:

[<DOM Element: heading at 0x11e6d28>]

I'm sure I'm overlooking something very simple here, thanks.

Is this what you mean?

tag= node.tagName
d[tag]= node

tagName is defined in DOM Level 1 Core, the basic standard that minidom (mostly) implements.