CODEWITHSUNDEEP
pythonxmlelementtree
user3591836
user3591836

Reputation: 993

python ElementTree: how to add SubElement text in bold

How can I create a SubElement of a Python ElementTree to write XML for this:

Hi What's up?

ie. where some text is bold and some isn't, but they both render on the same line when you print it out? I think this is what the XML should look like.

<p>
  <b>Hi</b>
  What's up?
</p>

I've tried several things, including the following:

import xml.etree.ElementTree as ET

p_element = ET.SubElement(section, "p")
bold = ET.SubElement(p_element, "b")
bold.text = "Hi" 
not_bold = ET.SubElement(bold, "p")
not_bold.text = "What's up?"

That gives the following and it ends up all being bold:

<p>
  <b>
     Hi
     <p> 
       What's up?
     </p>
  </b>
</p>

And if I instead do it like this:

import xml.etree.ElementTree as ET

p_element = ET.SubElement(section, "p")
bold = ET.SubElement(p_element, "b")
bold.text = "Hi" 
not_bold = ET.SubElement(p_element, "p")
not_bold.text = "What's up?"

It gets the correct words in bold, but "Hi" and "What's up?" will render on different lines.

Upvotes: 0

Views: 1347

Answers (1)

alex2007v
alex2007v

Reputation: 1300

You can do next:

import xml.etree.ElementTree as ET


p_element = ET.Element("p")
b_element = ET.SubElement(p_element, 'b')
b_element.text = "Hi"
b_element.tail = "What's up?"
print(ET.dump(p_element)) # <p><b>Hi</b>What's up?</p>

but don't use this module if you need to parse untrusted or unauthenticated data due to XML vulnerabilities.

Upvotes: 2

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