XML Declaration standalone=“yes” lxml

Question

I have an xml I am parsing, making some changes and saving out to a new file. It has the declaration

Answer 1

Specify standalone using tree.docinfo.standalone.

Try following:

from lxml import etree
tree = etree.fromstring(templateXml).getroottree() # NOTE: .getroottree()

xmlFileOut = '/Users/User1/Desktop/Python/Done.xml'   

with open(xmlFileOut, "w") as f:
    f.write(etree.tostring(tree, pretty_print=True, xml_declaration=True,
                           encoding=tree.docinfo.encoding,
                           standalone=tree.docinfo.standalone))