from xml.etree.ElementTree import ElementTree
from xml.etree.ElementTree import Element
from xml.etree.ElementTree import SubElement
from xml.etree.ElementTree import dump
from xml.etree.ElementTree import Comment
from xml.etree.ElementTree import tostring
#url = "http://itms-server/Media_ConfigFiles/Media_File2File_Mpeg2toMpeg2_Single_001.xml"
'''
<?xml version="1.0"?>
<PurchaseOrder>
<account refnum="2390094"/>
<item sku="33-993933" qty="4">
<name>Potato Smasher</name>
<description>Smash Potatoes like never before.</description>
</item>
</PurchaseOrder>
'''
#f = open("book.xml", 'w')
#f.close()
book = ElementTree()
purchaseorder = Element('PurchaseOrder')
book._setroot(purchaseorder)
SubElement(purchaseorder, 'account', {'refnum' : "2390094"})
item = Element("item", {'sku' : '33-993933', 'qty' : '4'})
purchaseorder.append(item)
print item.items()
print item.attrib
print item.get('sku')
SubElement(item, 'name').text = "Potato Smasher"
SubElement(item, 'description').text = "Smash Potatoes libe never before"
##displaying the content of the xml docuemnt
'''
'''
print purchaseorder.find('account')
print purchaseorder.find('account').get('refnum')
print purchaseorder.findall('account')[0].get('refnum')
print purchaseorder.find('item/name')
print purchaseorder.find('item/name').text
print ElementTree(item).getroot().find('name').text
print ElementTree(file='book.xml').getroot().find('item/description').text
for element in purchaseorder.getiterator():
print element.tag
def indent(elem, level=0):
i = "\n" + level*" "
if len(elem):
if not elem.text or not elem.text.strip():
elem.text = i + " "
for e in elem:
indent(e, level+1)
if not e.tail or not e.tail.strip():
e.tail = i
if level and (not elem.tail or not elem.tail.strip()):
elem.tail = i
return elem
if __name__ == "__main__":
dump(indet(purchaseorder))
book.write('book.xml', "utf-8")