extra xml header with ElementTree?

[Gerard Flanagan]

On May 25, 3:55 pm, "Tim Arnold" <tia... at sas.com> 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?
>
> python2.4.1,hpux10,ElementTree1.2.6
>

#This import is for 2.5, change for 2.4
from xml.etree import cElementTree as ET

tocbody = '<toc><item>one</item><item>two</item></toc>'

doc = ET.ElementTree(ET.fromstring(tocbody))

outfile = open('\\working\\tmp\\toctest.xml', 'w')

outfile.write('<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" ?>')

outfile.write('<?NLS TYPE="org.eclipse.help.toc"?>')

doc._write(outfile, doc._root, 'utf-8', {})

outfile.close()

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  <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" ?>
  <?NLS TYPE="org.eclipse.help.toc"?>
  <toc>
  <item>one</item>
  <item>two</item>
  </toc>