I need to make xml which has structure like this:

<?xml version='1.0' encoding='utf-8'?>
<tag1 atrib1='bla' atrib1='bla' atrib1='bla' atrib1='bla'>
<tag2 atrib = 'something'>
<tag3 atrib = 'something'>
<tag4 atrib = '..'>
<tag5 atrib = 'important'><div><h1>ContentFrom **OldXml.xml** </h1></div>
...

is it possible to create it like this? Since there is no root element defined (every element is the "root"), and I should just create element by element..

Any assistance would help, Thanks!

CodePudding user response：

<?xml version='1.0' encoding='utf-8'?>
<tag1 atrib1='bla' atrib1='bla' atrib1='bla' atrib1='bla'>
<tag2 atrib = 'something'>
<tag3 atrib = 'something'>
<tag4 atrib = '..'>
<tag5 atrib = 'important'><div><h1>ContentFrom **OldXml.xml** </h1></div>

This is not XML document, XML specification

A data object is an XML document if it is well-formed, as defined in this specification

and your example break following rules

There is exactly one element, called the root, or document element, no part of which appears in the content of any other element.

and

for each non-root element C in the document, there is one other element P in the document such that C is in the content of P, but is not in the content of any other element that is in the content of P.

CodePudding user response：

See below.

Assuming your data is in data

import xml.etree.ElementTree as ET


data = [[1],['x','y'],['k',12,'zz']]

root = ET.Element("root")
for i,entry in enumerate(data):
  ET.SubElement(root,f'tag{i}',attrib={f'p{y}':str(v) for y,v in enumerate(entry)})
ET.dump(root)

output

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<root>
   <tag0 p0="1" />
   <tag1 p0="x" p1="y" />
   <tag2 p0="k" p1="12" p2="zz" />
</root>