[Tutor] Basic ElementTree - another question

[Don Jennings]

> On Feb 27, 2020, at 12:44 PM, Alan Gauld via Tutor <tutor at python.org> wrote:
> 
> On 27/02/2020 05:59, Phil wrote:
> 
>> <gpx>
>> 
>>    <wpt lat="-32.506533000" lon="137.740017000">
>>     <name>1</name>
>>   </wpt>
>> </gpx>
>> 
>> and this is what I've currently got:
>> 
>> <gpx>
>>   <wpt lat="-32.506533000" lon="137.740017000" />
>>   <name name="1" />
>> </gpx>
>> 
>> This is the code that generates the above file:
>> 
>> from xml.etree import ElementTree as ET
>> 
>>   gpx = ET.Element("gpx")
>> 
>>   wpt = ET.SubElement(gpx, "wpt", lat="-32.506533000", lon= 
>> "137.740017000")
>>   name = ET.SubElement(gpx, "name", name="1")
> 
> Notice you said name was a sub-element of gpx.
> That's what you got. But you want name to be a
> sub-element of wpt…

Adding to what Alan wrote, notice that you added the keyword argument name=“1”, so you get it as an attribute of the element <name>; however, what you want is for it to be the content of the element. In the latter case, assign it to the text attribute of the element as Peter pointed out:

first = SubElement(e, "first")
first.text = "1st child”

Try fixing those 2 things, then post back your code if you run into difficulty, thanks.

Best,
Don