Using file objects with elementtree

[Diez B. Roggisch]

dj schrieb:
> Hello,
> 
> Rather then holding my XML document in memory before writing it to
> disk, I want to create a file object that elementtree will write each
> element to has it is created. Does any one know how to do that ?
> 
> Here is my code so, far:
> 
> fd = open("page.xml", "w")
> tree.write( fd, encoding="iso-8859-1")
> 
> I know there's something I am doing wrong, but I just do not know
> what.

This isn't possible. How should ET handle the case that you add a 
child-node to a node that has been rendered already?

What you could try is to serialize subtrees that are closed to a stream.


Diez