xml.dom.minidom.parse(filename_or_file, parser=None, bufsize=None) Return a Document from the given input. filename_or_file may be either a file name, or a file-like object. parser, if given, must be a SAX2 parser object. This function will change the document handler of the parser and activate namespace support; other parser configuration (like setting an entity resolver) must have been done in advance.

Node.writexml(writer, indent="", addindent="", newl="") Write XML to the writer object. The writer should have a write() method which matches that of the file object interface. The indent parameter is the indentation of the current node. The addindent parameter is the incremental indentation to use for subnodes of the current one. The newl parameter specifies the string to use to terminate newlines. For the Document node, an additional keyword argument encoding can be used to specify the enc

Node.unlink() Break internal references within the DOM so that it will be garbage collected on versions of Python without cyclic GC. Even when cyclic GC is available, using this can make large amounts of memory available sooner, so calling this on DOM objects as soon as they are no longer needed is good practice. This only needs to be called on the Document object, but may be called on child nodes to discard children of that node. You can avoid calling this method explicitly by using the wit

Node.toxml(encoding=None) Return a string or byte string containing the XML represented by the DOM node. With an explicit encoding [1] argument, the result is a byte string in the specified encoding. With no encoding argument, the result is a Unicode string, and the XML declaration in the resulting string does not specify an encoding. Encoding this string in an encoding other than UTF-8 is likely incorrect, since UTF-8 is the default encoding of XML.

Node.toprettyxml(indent="", newl="", encoding="") Return a pretty-printed version of the document. indent specifies the indentation string and defaults to a tabulator; newl specifies the string emitted at the end of each line and defaults to \n. The encoding argument behaves like the corresponding argument of toxml().

exception xml.dom.InvalidStateErr Raised when an attempt is made to use an object that is not defined or is no longer usable.

exception xml.dom.InvalidModificationErr Raised when an attempt is made to modify the type of a node.

exception xml.dom.InvalidCharacterErr This exception is raised when a string parameter contains a character that is not permitted in the context it’s being used in by the XML 1.0 recommendation. For example, attempting to create an Element node with a space in the element type name will cause this error to be raised.

exception xml.dom.InvalidAccessErr Raised if a parameter or an operation is not supported on the underlying object.

exception xml.dom.InuseAttributeErr Raised when an attempt is made to insert an Attr node that is already present elsewhere in the document.