extra xml header with ElementTree?

[Stefan Behnel]

Tim Arnold wrote:
> Hi, I'm using ElementTree which is wonderful. I have a need now to write out 
> an XML file with these two headers:
> <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" ?>
> <?NLS TYPE="org.eclipse.help.toc"?>
> 
> My elements have the root named tocbody and I'm using:
> newtree = ET.ElementTree(tocbody)
> newtree.write(fname)
> 
> I assume if I add the encoding arg I'll get the xml header:
> newtree = ET.ElementTree(tocbody)
> newtree.write(fname,encoding='utf-8')
> 
> but how can I get the <?NLS TYPE="org.eclipse.help.toc"?> into the tree?

Try

    ET.ProcessingInstruction("NLS", 'TYPE="..."')

Or try lxml.etree instead, it's ET compatible but has very good support for
PIs starting with 1.3beta.

http://codespeak.net/lxml/dev/

Stefan