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Asked: 2026-06-12T08:32:07+00:00

can anybody tell me how to append xml files using python this is my

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can anybody tell me how to append xml files using python

this is my file1.xml

<?xml version="1.0"?>
<addressbook>
    <person>
        <name>Eric Idle</name>
        <phone type='fix'>999-999-999</phone>
        <phone type='mobile'>555-555-555</phone>
        <address>
            <street>12, spam road</street>
            <city>London</city>
            <zip>H4B 1X3</zip>
        </address>
    </person>
</addressbook>

and i want to append it to another xml file

<?xml version="1.0"?>

 <note>
    <to>Tove</to>
    <from>Jani</from>
    <heading>Reminder</heading>
    <body>Don't forget me this weekend!</body>
 </note>

Is there any module which can do this for me…

and the output i needed is :

<addressbook>
    <person>
        <name>Eric Idle</name>
        <phone type='fix'>999-999-999</phone>
        <phone type='mobile'>555-555-555</phone>
        <address>
            <street>12, spam road</street>
            <city>London</city>
            <zip>H4B 1X3</zip>
        </address>
    </person>
    <note>
        <to>Tove</to>
        <from>Jani</from>
        <heading>Reminder</heading>
    <body>Don't forget me this weekend!</body>
     </note>
</addressbook>

And for now i need to read xml from files but later i need to get the xml response from server and the convert it into one xml file .So please if any one know that to it will help me alot……

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  1. Editorial Team

    EDIT: Removed old answer as the question changed considerably.

    Using lxml:

    addressbook_xml = """<?xml version="1.0"?>
<addressbook>
    <person>
        <name>Eric Idle</name>
        <phone type='fix'>999-999-999</phone>
        <phone type='mobile'>555-555-555</phone>
        <address>
            <street>12, spam road</street>
            <city>London</city>
            <zip>H4B 1X3</zip>
        </address>
    </person>
</addressbook>"""

note_xml = """<?xml version="1.0"?>

 <note>
    <to>Tove</to>
    <from>Jani</from>
    <heading>Reminder</heading>
    <body>Don't forget me this weekend!</body>
 </note>
"""

from lxml import etree

# XML strings to etree
addressbook_root = etree.fromstring(addressbook_xml)
note_root = etree.fromstring(note_xml)

# append the note
addressbook_root.append(note_root)

# print the new addressbook XML document
print etree.tostring(addressbook_root)
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