Question

I did something similar to this, but couldn’t find a way to write the result to an xml file.

Answer 1

The code on the web page you linked to uses doc.toprettyxml to create a string from the XML DOM, so you can just write that string to a file:

f = open('output.xml', 'w') try:     f.write(doc.toprettyxml(indent='  ')) finally:     f.close() 

In Python 2.6 (or 2.7 I suppose, whenever it comes out), you can use the ‘with‘ statement:

with open('output.xml', 'w') as f:     f.write(doc.toprettyxml(indent='  ')) 

This also works in Python 2.5 if you put

from __future__ import with_statement 

at the beginning of the file.