"Gerard Flanagan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > On May 25, 3:55 pm, "Tim Arnold" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Hi, I'm using ElementTree which is wonderful. I have a need now to write >> out >> an XML file with these two headers: >> <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" ?> >> <?NLS TYPE="org.eclipse.help.toc"?> >> >> My elements have the root named tocbody and I'm using: >> newtree = ET.ElementTree(tocbody) >> newtree.write(fname) >> >> I assume if I add the encoding arg I'll get the xml header: >> newtree = ET.ElementTree(tocbody) >> newtree.write(fname,encoding='utf-8') >> >> but how can I get the <?NLS TYPE="org.eclipse.help.toc"?> into the tree? >> >> python2.4.1,hpux10,ElementTree1.2.6 >> > > #This import is for 2.5, change for 2.4 > from xml.etree import cElementTree as ET > > tocbody = '<toc><item>one</item><item>two</item></toc>' > > doc = ET.ElementTree(ET.fromstring(tocbody)) > > outfile = open('\\working\\tmp\\toctest.xml', 'w') > > outfile.write('<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" ?>') > > outfile.write('<?NLS TYPE="org.eclipse.help.toc"?>') > > doc._write(outfile, doc._root, 'utf-8', {}) > > outfile.close() > > ----------------- > > <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" ?> > <?NLS TYPE="org.eclipse.help.toc"?> > <toc> > <item>one</item> > <item>two</item> > </toc> >
thanks, this works well. After looking at the ET code, I just used the 'write' method straight since it calls _write in turn. thanks again, --Tim -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
