Writing XML from Python ...

Fred L. Drake, Jr. fdrake at acm.org
Thu Aug 19 14:48:51 EDT 1999


Gerald Gutierrez writes:
 > I've been having an extremely hard time finding information on how I
 > can write out XML files from Python. The python-xml software seems to
 > be targetted primarily at parsing XML files, not creating them.

  If you create DOM objects using the XML package (which can be done
programmatically without a source document), you can simply write the
string returned by the document object's toxml() method.
  If you don't want to use the XML package, print works just fine.


  -Fred

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Fred L. Drake, Jr.	     <fdrake at acm.org>
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