#!/usr/bin/env python #coding:utf-8 # Author: mozman # Purpose: a hack to generate XML containing CDATA by ElementTree # Created: 26.05.2012 # Copyright (C) 2012, Manfred Moitzi # License: MIT License # usage: # # from svgwrite.etree import etree, CDATA # # element = etree.Element('myTag') # element.append(CDATA("< and >")) # # assert etree.tostring(element) == "<myTag><![CDATA[< and >]]></myTag>" import sys PY3 = sys.version_info[0] > 2 import xml.etree.ElementTree as etree CDATA_TPL = "<![CDATA[%s]]>" CDATA_TAG = CDATA_TPL def CDATA(text): element = etree.Element(CDATA_TAG) element.text = text return element original_serialize_xml = etree._serialize_xml if PY3: def _serialize_xml_with_CDATA_support(write, elem, qnames, namespaces, **kwargs): if elem.tag == CDATA_TAG: write(CDATA_TPL % elem.text) else: original_serialize_xml(write, elem, qnames, namespaces, **kwargs) else: def _serialize_xml_with_CDATA_support(write, elem, encoding, qnames, namespaces): if elem.tag == CDATA_TAG: write(CDATA_TPL % elem.text.encode(encoding)) else: original_serialize_xml(write, elem, encoding, qnames, namespaces) # ugly, ugly, ugly patching etree._serialize_xml = _serialize_xml_with_CDATA_support