En Sun, 11 Feb 2007 15:15:21 -0300, Rajarshi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>  
escribió:

> Hi, I'm using ElementTree for some RSS processing. The point where I
> face a problem is that within an <item></item> I need to add another
> child node (in addition to <link> etc) which is a well-formed XML
> document (Chemical Markup Language to be precise).
>
> So my code looks like:
>
> import cElementTree as ET
>
>     c = open('x.cml').readlines()
>     c = string.join(c)
>     cml = ET.XML(c)

All the above thing can be replaced by:
        cml = ET.parse("x.cml")

>
> Now I also have the following code:
>
>     def addItem(self, title, link, description, cml = None):
>         RSSitem = ET.SubElement ( self.RSSchannel, 'item' )
>
>         ET.SubElement( RSSitem, 'title' ).text = title
>         ET.SubElement( RSSitem, 'description' ).text = description
>
> What I'm confused is how I can add the cml Element object that I
> generated, to the RSSitem as a child node.

SubElement is just a convenience function for creating a new element and  
appending it to an existing parent element. As you already have the new  
subelement, just use append:

        RSSitem.append(cml)

See the documentation at http://www.effbot.org/zone/element-index.htm

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Gabriel Genellina

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