How to create "virtual root" with Python's ElementTree?

elementtree, python

Solution

I don't know if there's a better way but I've seen this done:

Create the base document as a string:

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html></html>

Then parse that string to start your new document.

Problem

I am trying to use Python's ElementTree to generate an XHTML file. However, the ElementTree.Element() just lets me create a single tag (e.g., HTML). I need to create some sort of a virtual root or whatever it is called so that I can put the various , DOCTYPES, etc. How do I do that? Thanks

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