I suggest ElementTree. There are other compatible implementations of the same API, such as lxml, and cElementTree in the Python standard library itself; but, in this context, what they chiefly add is even …

Jinja can handle looping over a list of data to produce the inner xml of your document list. That is a bit trickier with raw python string templates For a Jinja example, see my answer to a similar question. …

Musing over a recently asked question, I started to wonder if there is a really simple way to deal with XML documents in Python. A pythonic way, if you will. Perhaps I can explain best if i give e...

Mar 12, 2013 · I am generating an XML document in Python using an ElementTree, but the tostring function doesn't include an XML declaration when converting to plaintext. from …

85 ElementTree is much easier to use, because it represents an XML tree (basically) as a structure of lists, and attributes are represented as dictionaries. ElementTree needs much less memory for XML …

Mar 15, 2009 · The ElementTree.parse reads from a file, how can I use this if I already have the XML data in a string? Maybe I am missing something here, but there must be a way to use the …

For working (navigating, searching, and modifying) with XML or HTML data, I found BeautifulSoup library very useful. For installation problem or detailed information, click on link. To find Attribute (tag) …

Apr 15, 2009 · What is the best way (or are the various ways) to pretty print XML in Python?

main main.object1 = "content" main.object1.attr = "name" The XML data will have a more complicated structure than that and I can't hard code the element names. The attribute names need to be …

Mar 2, 2015 · I simply solved it with the indent() function: xml.etree.ElementTree.indent(tree, space=" ", level=0) Appends whitespace to the subtree to indent the tree visually. This can be used to generate …