XML writing tools for Python

Question

I\'m currently trying ElementTree and it looks fine, it escapes HTML entities and so on and so forth. Am I missing something truly wonderful I haven\'t heard of?

Thi

Answer 1

I assume that you're actually creating an XML DOM tree, because you want to validate that what goes into this file is valid XML, since otherwise you'd just write a static string to a file. If validating your output is indeed your goal, then I'd suggest

from xml.dom.minidom import parseString

doc = parseString("""
    
        
    
    
        
And I like the fact that 3 > 1
    
    """)

with open("foo.xhtml", "w") as f:
    f.write( doc.toxml() )

This lets you just write the XML you want to output, validate that it's correct (since parseString will raise an exception if it's invalid) and have your code look much nicer.

Presumably you're not just writing the same static XML every time and want some substitution. In this case I'd have lines like

var a = '%(message)s'

and then use the % operator to do the substitution, like

""" % {"message": "I love á letters"})