I have the following XML
<Head>
<child></child>
</Head>
And I want to alter the XML to something like this:
<Parent>
<child></child>
</Parent>
How do I do this? I have read this and this but they use Element tree.
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1What is lxml2? Do you mean lxml or perhaps the libxml2 Python bindings?mzjn– mzjn2015-01-19 11:29:35 +00:00Commented Jan 19, 2015 at 11:29
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I am sorry, updated the question tag.user1343318– user13433182015-01-19 11:35:01 +00:00Commented Jan 19, 2015 at 11:35
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If my answer solves this problem, don't forget to accept it. :)Stephen Lin– Stephen Lin2015-01-23 06:08:17 +00:00Commented Jan 23, 2015 at 6:08
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For instance, you have this original file.
<Head>
<child>this is text for child</child>
</Head>
Then you can use xml.dom.minidom to change name of root tag.
#-*- coding:utf-8 -*-
#!/usr/bin/env python
import xml.dom.minidom
info = '''
<Head>
<child>this is text for child</child>
</Head>
'''
dom = xml.dom.minidom.parseString(info)
dom.firstChild.tagName = 'parent'
# save it to any file you want
xml_file = 'C:\\temp\\lch.xml'
f = open(xml_file, 'wb')
dom.writexml(f)
f.close()
OUTPUT:
<?xml version="1.0" ?><parent>
<child>this is text for child</child>
</parent>
