Question

Code:

import markup
url_= ('href1.com','href2.com')
mycxml=markup.page(mode='xml', case='given')
mycxml.init(encoding='utf-8')
mycxml.Collection.open()
mycxml.Items(url_)
mycxml.collection.close()
print mycxml

Output:

<?xml version='1.0' encoding='utf-8' ?>
<Collection>
<Items>href1.com</Items>
<Items>href2.com</Items>
</collection>

I would like to have a line like <Collection xmlns:p="somelines"> instead of <Collection>, but the : does not let me compile it. How can I “escape” it?

Answer 1

I don’t know if markup.py has something built-in to handle this, but it’s easy to force python to accept it using the ** syntax:

import markup
url_= ('href1.com','href2.com')
mycxml=markup.page(mode='xml', case='given')
mycxml.init(encoding='utf-8')
mycxml.Collection(**{'xmlns:p': 'somelines'})
mycxml.Items(url_)
mycxml.collection.close()
print mycxml

output:

<?xml version='1.0' encoding='utf-8' ?>
<Collection xmlns:p="somelines">
<Items>href1.com</Items>
<Items>href2.com</Items>
</collection>