Python XML Cheat Sheet
[UPDATED] Finally xml.dom.minidom sucks balls, it can burn up to hundreds/gigs of megabytes of sweet memory when working with “large” xml files (10 Mb or more). See this post for a really lightweight implementation.
Howdy,
Here is a quick reference of how to create an XML document and output it in Python.
import xml.dom.minidom
# create the document
doc = xml.dom.minidom.Document()
# populate it with an element
root = doc.createElement("teabag")
doc.appendChild(root)
# time to give some children to the root element, one with an attribute for instance
child1 = doc.createElement("spam")
child1.setAttribute("name", "value")
root.appendChild(child1)
# and another one with some text
child2 = doc.createElement("eggs")
text = doc.createTextNode("spam and eggs!")
child2.appendChild(text)
root.appendChild(child2)
# let's get the output, as a string
print doc.toprettyxml()
# you're supposed to get the following output:
#<?xml version="1.0" ?>
#<teabag>
# <spam name="value"/>
# <eggs>
# spam and eggs!
# </eggs>
#</teabag>
How nice is that ? Yep, a lot.
