How would I convert an XML element into string and a string back to XML format using xml.elementtree in web2py ?
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Use parseString to get xml element from string and toxml to make string out of xml element. Something like this.
from xml.dom.minidom import parseString
dom = minidom.parseString(content)
...
# do some changes to dom here
return dom.toxml()
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Using the standard library, you'd use the StringIO writer and the parseString function:
>>> from StringIO import StringIO
>>> from xml.dom.minidom import parseString
>>> e = parseString('<foo/>')
>>> out = StringIO()
>>> e.writexml(out)
>>> s = out.getvalue()
>>> print(s)
<?xml version="1.0" ?><foo/>
>>> e2 = parseString(s)
