Question

Here is my sample code:

from xml.dom.minidom import * def make_xml():     doc = Document()     node = doc.createElement('foo')     node.innerText = 'bar'     doc.appendChild(node)     return doc if __name__ == '__main__':     make_xml().writexml(sys.stdout) 

when I run the above code I get this:

<?xml version='1.0' ?> <foo/> 

I would like to get:

<?xml version='1.0' ?> <foo>bar</foo> 

I just guessed that there was an innerText property, it gives no compiler error, but does not seem to work… how do I go about creating a text node?

Answer 1

Setting an attribute on an object won’t give a compile-time or a run-time error, it will just do nothing useful if the object doesn’t access it (i.e. ‘node.noSuchAttr = 'bar'‘ would also not give an error).

Unless you need a specific feature of minidom, I would look at ElementTree:

import sys from xml.etree.cElementTree import Element, ElementTree  def make_xml():     node = Element('foo')     node.text = 'bar'     doc = ElementTree(node)     return doc  if __name__ == '__main__':     make_xml().write(sys.stdout)