On 4 November 2013 03:00, Amit Sethi <amit.pureene...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Hi All, I am stuck with wierd problem . I am dealing with a legacy > system(written in C) that deals with using some xml. The xml is > created with python. Now the trouble is that the legacy system > understands empty element as: > > <element><element> > > where as using python libs lxml or xml.etree or anything empty element > is written as > <element/> is there a way I can change that. So that I don't have to > make any changes in the legacy system.
Have pretty much quit using Python XML parsers other than lxml, but lxml can both read and write such tags. I would be surprised if xml.etree could not do that. from lxml import etree # Read: xml = '<a></a>' root = etree.fromstring( xml ) print etree.tostring( root ) # Write: root = etree.Element( 'doc' ) child = etree.SubElement( root, 'a' ) # Set empty string as element content: Open/close tags forced child.text = '' print etree.tostring( root ) Regards, Gora _______________________________________________ BangPypers mailing list BangPypers@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/bangpypers
