Re: [xml] Building a DOM tree in python using libxml2

[John Fleck <jfleck inkstain net>]

On Wed, 2004-07-14 at 16:19, Colin Fox wrote:
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> Hi, all.
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> I posted before about trying to manually build a tree and getting a
> segfault.
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> Maybe I've overlooked something, but I've checked all the documentation
> I can find, and can't see any examples of doing this in python.
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> Can a kind soul out there provide me with a short example on how to
> construct a small tree in python? A root with a single text node would
> be great.
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> Thanks,

Here's one:

#!/usr/bin/python -u
import libxml2

doc = libxml2.newDoc("1.0")
root = doc.newChild(None, "root", "some content")

doc.saveFormatFile(("file.xml"),1)
doc.freeDoc()

Cheers,
John