Editing XML as a dictionary in python?

Question

I\'m trying to generate customized xml files from a template xml file in python.

Conceptually, I want to read in the template xml, remove some elements, change some

Answer 1

most direct way to me :

root        = ET.parse(xh)
data        = root.getroot()
xdic        = {}
if data > None:
    for part in data.getchildren():
        xdic[part.tag] = part.text