creating XML elements

[Gerhard Haering]

Somebody claiming to be named "so very tired" wrote:
> Hi,
> I've been using python for parsing XML, but I need to now create and add
> elements with subelements, attributes and text. How do I do this using
> the DOM libraries assuming I just have an XML document with a root node?

Here's an example: http://www.cs.fhm.edu/~ifw00065/VitaminP/addressbook.py 

These are the key lines:
doc = implementation.createDocument(None, None, None)
addressbook = doc.createElement(xmlconstants.AddressBook)
doc.appendChild(addressbook)

The rest is pretty obvious.

Gerhard
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