A simple xml.dom.minidom question

[Peter Otten]

Paulo Pinto wrote:

> There are a set of applications that use XML files
> as their configuration mechanism. Inside these files
> there is some data that isn't standard XML but it in
> form expected by the tools.
> 
> For example
> 
> <values>
> "value1" "value2"
> </values>
> 
> Now, if I use writexml(), I get the following,
> 
> <values>
> "value1" "value2"
> </values>
> 
> Which I understand, because it is how it should be
> in standard XML.
> 
> However I am really required to use the first form.

Maybe you can get away with a tiny hack:

import xml.dom.minidom as md
import cStringIO

def wd(writer, data):
    data = data.replace("&", "&").replace("<", "<")
    writer.write(data)

md._write_data = wd

d = md.parseString("""<values>"v1" "v2"</values>""")
s = cStringIO.StringIO()
d.writexml(s)
print s.getvalue()

Peter