elementtree is wonderful. take a look at this source.

[Chad MILLER]

Last weekend, I put together a program to read one XML feed and produce another XML feed*.  I invite you to look at all of the source and critique or ask questions.

Near the end of both of these files, which I put here strictly for reference,
  http://web.chad.org/projects/orlando-crime/orlcrimefetch.py
  http://web.chad.org/projects/orlando-crime/orlcrimeuse.py
is the usage of elementtree, but the latter one is where I'm constructing a new XML document, and that deserves a look at how easy it is.  It's easy to try to print "<" and node names and attributes..., and forget to encode something.  Instead, use a programmatic interface and let it work out the details.

- chad

* http://web.chad.org/projects/orlando-crime/