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Asked: 2026-05-27T10:34:40+00:00

As I saw, when we run from xml.dom.minidom import parse myXML = parse(‘anything.xml’) in

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As I saw, when we run

from xml.dom.minidom import parse
myXML = parse('anything.xml')

in a Python script, it loads the contents of “anything.xml”, until you leave the script or Ctrl+D your Python session.

Is it possible to add attribute values to this loaded version of the XML in Python?

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  1. Editorial Team

    The parse method returns you an instance of xml.dom.minidom.Document, on which you can invoke the plethora of methods listed in the documentation of xml.dom. Here’s a small example:

    import xml.dom.minidom

d = xml.dom.minidom.parseString('<head>hello</head>')
d.getElementsByTagName('head')[0].setAttribute('joe', '2')
print d.toxml()

    This adds a joe="2" attribute to the head tag:

    <?xml version="1.0" ?><head joe="2">hello</head>
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