How to write an xml file using libxml2 in python?

Question

I am attempting to write an xml file in python3 using libxml2. I cannot find any relevant documentation regarding python about writing files with libxml. When I attempt to write an xml file parsed with libxml2 I get the error:

xmlDoc has no attribute write

Anyone here done this before? I can get it to work in Etree just fine but Etree will not respect the attribute order that I need.

Answer 1

You can use saveFile() or saveFileEnc(). Example:

import libxml2

XML = """
<root a="1" b="2">XYZ</root>
"""

doc = libxml2.parseDoc(XML)

doc.saveFile("test.xml")
doc.saveFileEnc("test2.xml", "UTF-8")

I could not find any good documentation for the Python API. Here is the corresponding C documentation: http://xmlsoft.org/html/libxml-tree.html#xmlSaveFile.