New Line occurring after text

[Miguel Valenzue]

I am outputting an xml list using join but a new line is appended to within the xml list. Not sure why.

for item in splitList:
    finalList.append (("<family_name>%s</family_name> <name>%s</name>") % (item[0], item[1]))

f=open(outputFile, 'w')
f.write("\n".join(finalList))
f.close()

output

<family_name>Fa mily Name</family_name> <name>Facilitat or
</name> ##This is on a new line! Don't want this
<family_name>Br igham Young University</family_name> <name>Erica Williams
</name>
...

[Miguel Valenzue]

SOLVED!
I'm not sure how to erase questions but I solved this.
the problem was not with the code I listed but with previous code when importing the file.

I changed the code and redid the list this way.

for i in myList:
    splitList.append (i.rstrip('\n').split(';'))

That stripped out the newline and it work. Case closed!