Fixing Missing Element Tags in XML with Python (xml.etree.ElementTree)

Example of approach for XML data which is missing tags in elements using Python xml.etree.ElementTree
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[@kn7298]

I know it's a bit late, but you can correct the XML layout after adding a new subelement by using the Indent method of ElementTree. This refreshes the automatic indent for the whole tree (or element). You may need to specify "space = ' '" (4 spaces) to override the default setting, to match the default layout for the dump method.
ET.indent (tree, space = ' ') # for entire tree
ET.indent (elm, space = ' ', level = 1) # for just the element
although I did have problems with inconsistent spacing trying to just indent the element!! :O

[@hoscoharding7319]

Ty so much man!

[@skillbuilder138]

Hi, How to write the content of etree.dump to an xml file?

[@rupeshbhuju2897]

Hi Francesco Cento. I would like to know how to implement below two use cases
1) Incorrect type of data inside an element, for e.g string inside an element that is supposed to have an integer.
2) Missing element: An element that must be present according to XSD is not present in the XML.
Could you please suggest any idea on this ? thanks

[@fcento]

Rupesh, for your use case you may have to refer to a different library called “LXML” which has xml schema (XSD) support. I’m not experienced with this but looking at the documentation it has has an example on how to construct a validator which should address both your issues.

[@rupeshbhuju2897]

@@fcento Thank you for your suggestion. I will look into that more.

[@vishalkalal22]

Hi Francesco,
In my xml closing tag is missing for example,
Current xml -

1
2008
141100


Expected xml -

1
2008
141100


Can you please help me with this?

[@fcento]

If the closing tag is missing, it is technically an invalid file. You may have to manually close it yourself as there is no way for the code to know where it should be closed.

[@AnilKumar23456]

Vishal, you can use regex to find missing closed tag and then just replace it with desired closing tag

[@vvtwins4kidz]

this code is specific to specific xml, the code should be generic for any XML, if tags are missing it should add the missing tags

[@aryan6536]

Surely you can use this information now to achieve many things, are you having any issues? Please share someone might be able ot help.

[@aryan6536]

Have you stopped created videos?

[@fcento]

Is there anything in particular you would like to see? Been thinking to possibly do a video on CuPy