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

Another way is using the E Factory builder from lxml (available in Elementtree too)

>>> from lxml import etree

>>> from lxml.builder import E

>>> def CLASS(*args): # class is a reserved word in Python
...     return {"class":' '.join(args)}

>>> html = page = (
...   E.html(       # create an Element called "html"
...     E.head(
...       E.title("This is a sample document")
...     ),
...     E.body(
...       E.h1("Hello!", CLASS("title")),
...       E.p("This is a paragraph with ", E.b("bold"), " text in it!"),
...       E.p("This is another paragraph, with a", "\n      ",
...         E.a("link", href="http://www.python.org"), "."),
...       E.p("Here are some reserved characters: ."),
...       etree.XML("
And finally an embedded XHTML fragment.
"),
...     )
...   )
... )

>>> print(etree.tostring(page, pretty_print=True))

  
    
  
  
    
Hello!
    
This is a paragraph with bold text in it!
    
This is another paragraph, with a
      link.
    
Here are some reservered characters: <spam&egg>.
    
And finally an embedded XHTML fragment.