Hello, Out of curiosity, is there a more compact way to check if an element exists, edit if it does, insert if it doesn't ? #=========== Edit/insert top-most name r = root.find('./Document/name') #if et.iselement(r) if r is not None:     print("Name exists: ",r.text)     r.text = BASENAME else:     print("Name does not exist")     #insert new element     et.SubElement('/kml/Document', "name").text = BASENAME Thank you.