homepage

I have extended the xml.etree.ElementTree.Element class and pass the text attribute in the arguments. This creates much more compact code:
import xml.etree.ElementTree as xml
 
 
class Element(xml.Element):
 def __init__(self,tag,attrib={},**attrs):
 super(xml.Element,self).__init__()
 self.tag = tag
 self.attrib = attrib
 self.attrib.update(attrs)
 self.text = self.attrib.pop('text',None)
 self.tail = self.attrib.pop('tail',None)
 self._children = []
if __name__ == '__main__':
 from sys import stdout
 test = Element('Hello',)
 test2 = Element('World',{'humour':'excelent'},text = 'How do you do', tail="Fine")
 test.append(test2) 
 xml.ElementTree(test).write(stdout,encoding="utf-8",xml_declaration="yes",method="xml")