Hello, For http://docs.python.org/2/library/xml.etree.elementtree.html#xml.etree.Elemen... could you please add that if the tag of the element is set to None, said tag is omitted in the resulting bytes: Python 3.3.0 (v3.3.0:bd8afb90ebf2, Sep 29 2012, 01:25:11) from xml.etree.ElementTree import fromstring, tostring e = fromstring('<xml><i>example</i> accentué</xml>') tostring(e) --> b'<xml><i>example</i> accentué</xml>' e.tag = None tostring(e) --> b'<i>example</i> accentué' Very handy in a templating context. Also, tostring returns bytes and should be named tobytes, actually :-) If what you really want is a string you should use : tostring(e, encoding='unicode') --> '<i>example</i> accentué' Hum… Thank you. Quarante-Deux: quelques pages sur la SF Ellen C. Herzfeld - Dominique O. Martel http://www.quarante-deux.org/ - @xlii42 http://www.quarante-deux.org/index.atom