Editing XML as a dictionary in python?

Question

I\'m trying to generate customized xml files from a template xml file in python.

Conceptually, I want to read in the template xml, remove some elements, change some

Answer 1

Adding this line

d.update(('@' + k, v) for k, v in el.attrib.iteritems())

in the user247686's code you can have node attributes too.

Found it in this post https://stackoverflow.com/a/7684581/1395962

Example:

import xml.etree.ElementTree as etree
from urllib import urlopen

xml_file = "http://your_xml_url"
tree = etree.parse(urlopen(xml_file))
root = tree.getroot()

def xml_to_dict(el):
    d={}
    if el.text:
        d[el.tag] = el.text
    else:
        d[el.tag] = {}
    children = el.getchildren()
    if children:
        d[el.tag] = map(xml_to_dict, children)

    d.update(('@' + k, v) for k, v in el.attrib.iteritems())

    return d

Call as

xml_to_dict(root)