Python : How to append new section to existing XML

Question

I have a simple XML file and need to add <item> Tried it with ElementTree but got lost...

So - from this :

<channel>
<title>Latest Critical Tickets</title>
<channelName>Critical </channelName>
<item>
    <title>Ticket number 01</title>
        <link>https://blablabla.com/01</link>
        <pubDate>Wed, 14 Jul 2021 16:45:00 GMT</pubDate>
</item>
</channel>

To this :

<channel>
<title>Latest Critical Tickets</title>
<channelName>Critical </channelName>
<item>
    <title>Ticket number 01</title>
        <link>https://blablabla.com/01</link>
        <pubDate>Wed, 14 Jul 2021 16:45:00 GMT</pubDate>
</item>
<item>
    <title>Ticket number 02</title>
        <link>https://blabl12abla.com/01</link>
        <pubDate>Wed, 16 Jul 2021 21:13:00 GMT</pubDate>
</item>
</channel>

thanks in advnaced!

Answer 1

I think this should do what you need:

import xml.etree.ElementTree as ET
from xml.dom import minidom

root = ET.fromstring("""<channel>
<title>Latest Critical Tickets</title>
<channelName>Critical </channelName>
<item>
    <title>Ticket number 01</title>
        <link>https://blablabla.com/01</link>
        <pubDate>Wed, 14 Jul 2021 16:45:00 GMT</pubDate>
</item>
</channel>""")

element_to_add = ET.fromstring("""<item>
    <title>Ticket number 02</title>
        <link>https://blabl12abla.com/01</link>
        <pubDate>Wed, 16 Jul 2021 21:13:00 GMT</pubDate>
</item>""")

root.insert(-1, element_to_add)

print(minidom.parseString(ET.tostring(root)).toprettyxml(indent="   "))