Python ElementTree parse and write as original format

Asked Jun 05 '19 at 18:29

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So I'm trying to parse an xml file, and replace a tag value. I'm able to do this fine with tree.find(). However, the issue comes when I then write the data to a new xml file. The new xml file has the replaced value that I added, but a bunch of other stuff in the xml seems to be changed as well, in terms of formatting. It completely removed my first line of

?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"...>

and changed a lot of the namespaces. I'm wondering what I can do to just leave everything else of my original xml, but just replace that one value.

Thanks

asked Jun 05 '19 at 18:29

RandomUser

show some code and data file – Zaraki Kenpachi Jun 05 '19 at 18:31
Interesting, will you be using the [xml](https://docs.python.org/3/library/xml.html) module? – jspcal Jun 05 '19 at 18:35
See https://stackoverflow.com/q/45990761/407651 – mzjn Jun 06 '19 at 06:35

Python ElementTree parse and write as original format

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