Header for XML files with xml.etree.ElementTree

Asked Apr 01 '13 at 08:56

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with the module xml.etree.ElementTree I can pretty much create an XML file as I like, except for the most important part ( in my case ): the header.

I can't find a real solution for that, my header is a costant string that I'm supposed to put right between <?xml version="1.0"?> and the first xml element; any clean solutions to this ?

What I mean with header it's the same thing that sometime it's called DTD ( document type definition )

example:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="iso-8859-1"?>
<!DOCTYPE svg PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD SVG 20001102//EN"
 "http://www.w3.org/TR/2000/CR-SVG-20001102/DTD/svg-20001102.dtd">

<svg>
  ....
</svg>

I need to write the

<!DOCTYPE svg PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD SVG 20001102//EN"
     "http://www.w3.org/TR/2000/CR-SVG-20001102/DTD/svg-20001102.dtd">

part inside the file.

edited Apr 01 '13 at 09:33

asked Apr 01 '13 at 08:56

juio

Can you give an example of what kind of text you need to insert? Valid XML doesn't give you much room as to what is *legal* between the prolog and the root XML element. – Martijn Pieters Apr 01 '13 at 09:23
@MartijnPieters more details added – juio Apr 01 '13 at 09:33
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See [How to create with Python's cElementTree](http://stackoverflow.com/q/8868248) – Martijn Pieters Apr 01 '13 at 09:41

Header for XML files with xml.etree.ElementTree

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