Python XML processing with |  |
Python XML processing with | |
If your program needs to read in an XML document, modify
it, and write it back out, this operation is
straightforward with lxml.
Start by reading the document using the techniques from Section 3, “Reading an XML document”.
Modify the document tree by adding, deleting, or replacing elements, attributes, text, and other features.
For example, suppose your program has a variable linkNode that contains an Element instance representing an HTML “a” (hyperlink) element, and you want to change
the value of its href attribute to point
to a different URL, such as http://www.nmt.edu/.
This code would do it:
linkNode.attrib['href'] = 'http://www.nmt.edu/'
Finally, write the document back out to a file as described in Section 5, “Creating a new XML document”.