[lxml-dev] elementtree as a hierarchical object tree

Hi, I'm new of lxml and XML programming. I would to use etree as a hierarchical object tree: every node element should have a property associated to an object.

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import lxml.etree as etree element=etree.fromstring('<TAG>some text</TAG>') element.text="a string"

that's all ok, but:

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element.text={'a':'real', 'python':'object'} TypeError: Argument must be string or unicode.

OK, the property name is "text" so some text is expected! My question is: if write a custom element with a property called "object", may I store inside it a reference to an object?