On Jul 15, 2011, at 7:53 AM, hackingKK wrote: > Hello all. > I am currently developing a python application which reads and writes some > data to an xml file. > I use the elementTree library for doing this. > My simple question is that if I have some thing like & as in "kk & company " > as organisation name, how can I have Python take this as a litteral string > including the & sign and put in the <orgname> </orgname> tag? > Even same applies while reading the file. I would like to have the & come as > a part of the literal string.
Hi Krishnakant, You don't need to do anything special to insert metacharacters like & and < and > into XML using ElementTree. Just treat them as normal text and ElementTree will change them to entity references (&, etc.) when it writes your file to disk. If you're having a specific problem with this, post some code. Cheers Philip -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
