Python Library xml.dom.minidom Howto (1)

CREATE A DOCUMENT

Python provides a simple xml.dom.minidom library which can be used for XML/HTML manipulation. Here I want to share some of what I learned to beginners on how to manipulate XML/HTML in Python.

First, we create a document DOM with root element called html. Here is the sample code:

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#!/usr/bin/env python
# -*- coding:utf-8 -*-

import xml.dom.minidom

def main():
  impl = xml.dom.minidom.getDOMImplementation()
  dom = impl.createDocument(None, u'html', None)

  print(dom.toxml())

if __name__ == '__main__':
  main()

In line 7 and 8, we create a dom with root element html. If you run the script, the following result will show up.

<?xml version="1.0" ?><html/>

In the next post [2], we will show how to add a text node to the root element.

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