Danny Scalenotti wrote:
> I'm not able to get out of this .......
>
>
> from xml.dom.minidom import getDOMImplementation
>
> impl = getDOMImplementation() // default UTF-8
> doc = impl.createDocument(None, "test",None)
> root = doc.documentElement
Here, you're actually getting a reference to the root "test" element at
the top of the document.
> root.setAttribute('myattrib', '5')
>
> print root.toxml()
Here, you're serialising the root "test" element, not the whole
document.
> I obtain
>
> <test myattrib="5"/>
...which is the expected result.
> why not this?
>
> <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
> <test myattrib="5"/>
Because you need to do this:
print doc.toxml()
Paul
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