elementtree and entities

[Daniel Nogradi]

Hi list,

How does one prevent elementtree converting & to & (and similarly
for other entities)?

>>from xml.etree import ElementTree as et
>>x = et.Element( 'test' )
>>x.text = '&'
>>et.tostring ( x )

'<test>&amp;</test>'

Sometimes I would like to have the output '<test>&</test>'

Daniel

[Duncan Booth]

Re: elementtree and entities

"Daniel Nogradi" <nogradi@gmail. comwrote:

Hi list,
>
How does one prevent elementtree converting & to &amp; (and similarly
for other entities)?
>

>>>from xml.etree import ElementTree as et
>>>x = et.Element( 'test' )
>>>x.text = '&'
>>>et.tostrin g( x )

'<test>&amp;</test>'
>
Sometimes I would like to have the output '<test>&</test>'
>
Daniel
>

elementtree is for processing xml. If you want to output something which
isn't xml then you'll have to use a different library or mess about with
the xml after it has been generated:

et.tostring(x). replace('&amp;' , '&')

does what you want, but you won't be able to parse it again with anything
which expects xml.

[Daniel Nogradi]

Re: elementtree and entities

How does one prevent elementtree converting & to &amp; (and similarly

for other entities)?

>>from xml.etree import ElementTree as et
>>x = et.Element( 'test' )
>>x.text = '&'
>>et.tostring ( x )

'<test>&amp;</test>'

Sometimes I would like to have the output '<test>&</test>'

>
elementtree is for processing xml. If you want to output something which
isn't xml then you'll have to use a different library or mess about with
the xml after it has been generated:
>
et.tostring(x). replace('&amp;' , '&')
>
does what you want, but you won't be able to parse it again with anything
which expects xml.

Thanks for the reply, I'll just live with replace then.