Using cElementTree and elementtree.ElementInclude

[Mark E. Smith]

cElementTree cannot hold ElementTree instances.

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can you post a small but self-contained example showing how you got this
error?

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#from elementtree.ElementTree import ElementTree, dump # This works
from cElementTree import ElementTree, dump # This does not
from elementtree import ElementInclude

etree = ElementTree(file='xml_in.xml').getroot()
dump(etree)

ElementInclude.include(etree)
dump(etree)

for child in etree.find('./included_root').findall('./*'):
# Copy the child down to the root
etree.append(child)
# Remove the root/included_root
etree.remove(etree.find('./included_root'))
dump(etree)
<!--xml_in.xml-->
<root xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude">
<child name="first"/>
<xi:include href="xml_included.xml"/>
</root>

<!--xml_included.xml-->
<included_root>
<child name="second"/>
<child name="third"/>
</included_root>
Thanks for the help.
Mark