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Learning python by example
from xml.dom.minidom import parseString
- creating new document, and root element at the same time.
doc = parseString(u'<top/>'.encode('UTF-8'))
- print doc.toprettyxml() will show you how it looks
- this would create:
<?xml version="1.0" ?>
<top/>
- Now we reference to our <top/> element by:
top_element=doc.documentElement
- We create another element by:
element1=doc.createElementNS(None,u'section1')
- Add it under our top element by:
top_element.appendChild(element1)
- Create another element and add it under element1
element1.appendChild(doc.createElementNS(None,u'subsection1'))
- How to create a text node:
text1=doc.createTextNode(u'My first text')
- Since we have no reference to subsection1. We start at reference to element1
element1.firstChild.appendChild(text1)
- add second subelement:
element1.appendChild(doc.createElementNS(None,u'subsection2'))
- create next text element, and add it to subsection2
text2=doc.createTextNode(u'My second text')
element1.lastChild.appendChild(text2)
- We are working with references. To switch text in subsections, you could do:
element1.firstChild.appendChild(text2)
element1.lastChild.appendChild(text1)