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

For anyone encountering this now, there's actually a way to do this hidden away in Python's standard library in xml.sax.utils.XMLGenerator. Here's an example of it in action:

>>> from xml.sax.saxutils import XMLGenerator
>>> import StringIO
>>> w = XMLGenerator(out, 'utf-8')
>>> w.startDocument()
>>> w.startElement("test", {'bar': 'baz'})
>>> w.characters("Foo")
>>> w.endElement("test")
>>> w.endDocument()
>>> print out.getvalue()

Foo