Emitting namespace specifications with ElementTree in Python

Question

I am trying to emit an XML file with element-tree that contains an XML declaration and namespaces. Here is my sample code:

from xml.etree import ElementTree          


        

Answer 1

I've never been able to get the tag out of the element tree libraries programatically so I'd suggest you try something like this.

from xml.etree import ElementTree as ET
root = ET.Element("STUFF")
root.set('com','http://www.company.com')
body = ET.SubElement(root, "MORE_STUFF")
body.text = "STUFF EVERYWHERE!"

f = open('page.xml', 'w')
f.write('' + ET.tostring(root))
f.close()

Non std lib python ElementTree implementations may have different ways to specify namespaces, so if you decide to move to lxml, the way you declare those will be different.