Suggestions for Python XML library which can search and insert

[Robert Kern]

lainedacier at gmail.com wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I'm looking for a library that can search through an XML document tree,
> locate an element by attribute (ideally this can be done through
> XPath), and insert an element (as its child).

Try lxml:

   http://codespeak.net/lxml/

In [25]: from lxml import etree

In [26]: nbk = etree.parse('tut-2.3.5-db.nbk')

In [27]: log = root.xpath('//ipython-log[@id="default-log"]')[0]

In [28]: etree.SubElement(log, 'cell')
Out[28]: <Element cell at d668>

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Robert Kern
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