XML DOM: XML/XHTML inside a text node

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"""
In my program, I get input from the user and insert it into an XHTML
document.  Sometimes, this input will contain XHTML, but since I'm
inserting it as a text node, xml.dom.minidom escapes the angle brackets
('<' becomes '<', '>' becomes '>').  I want to be able to
override this behavior cleanly.  I know I could pipe the input through
a SAX parser and create nodes to insert into the tree, but that seems
kind of messy.  Is there a better way?
"""

Amara 1.1.6 supports inserting an XML fragment into a document or
element object.  Many short examples here:

http://copia.ogbuji.net/blog/2005-09-21/Dare_s_XLI

excerpt:

Adding a <phone> element as a child of the <contact> element'

    contacts.xml_append_fragment('<phone>%s</phone>'%'206-555-0168'

http://uche.ogbuji.net/tech/4suite/amara

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