On Thu, Jan 7, 2010 at 8:44 AM, Phlip <phlip2...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Jan 7, 5:36 am, Stefan Behnel <stefan...@behnel.de> wrote: > > > Well, then note that there are tons of ways to generate XML with Python, > > including the one I pointed you to. > > from lxml.html import builder as E > xml = E.foo() > > All I want is "<foo/>", but I get "AttributeError: 'module' object has > no attribute 'foo'". > > A peek at dir(E) shows it only has HTML tags, all hard coded. > > So how to get it to generate any random XML tag my clients think of? >
If you want to generate random XML, don't use the HTML sub-module of lxml. Its a specific sub-set of functionality for HTML only documents. >>> from lxml.builder import ElementMaker >>> from lxml import etree >>> E = ElementMaker() >>> html = E.html( ... E.form( ... E.input(type="text", name="email"), ... E.input(type="text", name="blah") ... ) ... ) >>> etree.tostring(html) '<html><form><input type="text" name="email"/><input type="text" name="blah"/></form></html>' HTH, --S
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