tag replacement in toxml()

[Manuel Ospina]

Hi all,

I am new on the list and I already have a question :-(.

Ihave something like this:

import xml.dom.minidom
from xml.dom.minidom import getDOMImplement ation
impl = getDOMImplement ation()
myDoc = impl.createDocu ment(None, "example", None)
myRoot = myDoc.documentE lement
myNode1 = myDoc.createEle ment("node")
myNode2 = myDoc.createEle ment("nodeTwo")
myText = myDoc.createTex tNode("Here is the <b>problem</>")
myNode2.appendC hild(myText)
myNode1.appendC hild(myNode2)
myRoot.appendCh ild(myNode1)
print myDoc.toxml()

The result is:
'<?xml version="1.0" ?>\n<example><n ode><nodeTwo>He re is the &lt;b&gt;proble m&lt;/&gt;</nodeTwo></node></example>'


My question is how I can avoid that toxml() replaces the tags?

Regards,
Manuel





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Re: tag replacement in toxml()

import xml.dom.minidom

from xml.dom.minidom import getDOMImplement ation
impl = getDOMImplement ation()
myDoc = impl.createDocu ment(None, "example", None)
myRoot = myDoc.documentE lement
myNode1 = myDoc.createEle ment("node")
myNode2 = myDoc.createEle ment("nodeTwo")
myText = myDoc.createTex tNode("Here is the <b>problem</>")
myNode2.appendC hild(myText)
myNode1.appendC hild(myNode2)
myRoot.appendCh ild(myNode1)
print myDoc.toxml()
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The result is:
'<?xml version="1.0" ?>\n<example><n ode><nodeTwo>He re is the &lt;b&gt;proble m&lt;/&gt;</nodeTwo></node></example>'
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My question is how I can avoid that toxml() replaces the tags?

Gabriel already answered the question: you need to add a 'b'
element, which has a text child with the text 'problem'; this
b element needs to be a sibling of the text node 'Here is the '.

This still won't give you the output "Here is the <b>problem</>",
as that will insert a closing tag. If you really want to produce
the text

'<?xml version="1.0" ?>\n<example><n ode><nodeTwo>He re is the
<b>problem</></nodeTwo></node></example>'

you cannot use an XML library to do so: this text is not
well-formed XML (because </is illegal syntax).

Regards,
Martin