lxml and SimpleXMLWriter

[Srijit Kumar Bhadra]

I am new to lxml. I am interested to know the equivalent code using
lxml (http://cheeseshop.python.org/pypi/lxml/1.1alpha). The code is
taken from http://effbot.org/zone/xml-writer.htm

from elementtree.Sim pleXMLWriter import XMLWriter
import sys

w = XMLWriter(sys.s tdout)

html = w.start("html")

w.start("head")
w.element("titl e", "my document")
w.element("meta ", name="generator ", value="my application 1.0")
w.end()

w.start("body")
w.element("h1", "this is a heading")
w.element("p", "this is a paragraph")

w.start("p")
w.data("this is ")
w.element("b", "bold")
w.data(" and ")
w.element("i", "italic")
w.data(".")
w.end("p")

w.close(html)

Best Regards,
Srijit

[Fredrik Lundh]

Srijit Kumar Bhadra wrote:

I am new to lxml. I am interested to know the equivalent code using
lxml (http://cheeseshop.python.org/pypi/lxml/1.1alpha). The code is
taken from http://effbot.org/zone/xml-writer.htm

the lxml library implements the ElementTree module API (with
extensions), not the other parts of the ET library.

any reason you cannot just use the ET version ?

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[Stefan Behnel]

Srijit Kumar Bhadra wrote:

I am new to lxml. I am interested to know the equivalent code using
lxml (http://cheeseshop.python.org/pypi/lxml/1.1alpha). The code is
taken from http://effbot.org/zone/xml-writer.htm

from elementtree.Sim pleXMLWriter import XMLWriter
import sys

w = XMLWriter(sys.s tdout)

html = w.start("html")

[snip]

Note that the SimpleXMLWriter is in no way related to the ElementTree
implementation. Feel free to copy the module from the elementtree package and
use it with lxml.

Stefan