PyXML DOM question: adding the DOCTYPE

[Preston Landers]

Hi all.

I'm building XML documents in Python 2.1 using xml.dom.minidom.

Everything is peachy keen with the output except one thing: I need a
<!DOCTYPE> meta-element at the top of the document, and I can't seem
to get minidom to include this.  The scanty documentation provides few
clues for this puzzle.

I'm using a DocumentType object received from createDocumentType, and
I specify the DTD in that, but it doesn't want to create a DOCTYPE
element in the final output.

Am I going to have to do something ugly and hackish like manually
inserting my <!DOCTYPE> in my final XML string with a regular
expression? Bah... there has to be a better way!!

thanks,
Preston

from xml.dom import minidom

# DO == DocumentObjectModel Implementation object
DO = minidom.getDOMImplementation()

# DT == Document Type object
DT = DO.createDocumentType('JxRule', '', 'jxrule.dtd')
		
doc = DO.createDocument("http://journyx.com/xml", "JxRule", DT)

...

print doc.toxml()