Python XML processing with lxml

You can create an element or tree of elements from a string containing XML with this function; it returns a new Element instance representing all that XML.

etree.fromstring ( s )

where s is a string.

Here's an example:

>>> milne = '''<monster name='Heffalump'>
...   <trail>Woozle</trail>
...   <eeyore mood='boggy'/>
... </monster>'''
>>> doc = etree.fromstring ( milne )
>>> print etree.tostring ( doc )
<monster name="Heffalump">
  <trail>Woozle</trail>
  <eeyore mood="boggy"/>
</monster>
>>>