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

etree.tostring(tree, pretty_print = True, xml_declaration = True, encoding='UTF-8')

Will add the declaration if you're using lxml, however I noticed their declaration uses semi-quotes instead of full quotes.

You can also get the exact declaration you want by just concatenating the output with a static string you need:

xml = etree.tostring(tree, pretty_print = True, encoding='UTF-8')
xml = '\n' + xml