Question

I’m creating XML element via minidom:

    ele = doc.createElement("ele")
    main.appendChild(ele)   
    ele.attributes['name']= "bla"

But the elemnt looks:

<ele name="bla"/>

And what I want is:

<ele name="bla"></ele>

Answer 1

The two forms are equivalent. If you really want the closing tag, add an empty text node to the element:

>>> ele = doc.createElement('ele')
>>> ele.attributes['name']= "bla"
>>> ele.appendChild(doc.createTextNode(''))
>>> print ele.toxml()
<ele name="bla"></ele>