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[Donald Traboini] > Hi, I am a beginner in XML and Python as well and I am trying to learn as > much as possible by writing some examples myself. I created a very simple > xml file with just one element. Then I loaded the file into the DOM tree > using the 4DOM parser. Once the it was loaded, I appended a couple of child > elements to the root. This was all fine, but when I went back to the xml > file nothing was updated. Isn't the xml file supposed to be updated > automatically from the DOM tree? If not, what I do have to do to see the > changes? No, once the processor has processed the file, it is done with the file. There would be no further connection with the file unless you wrote some code to maintain a connection. That would be very hard (for a general case). If by "see changes" you mean to load an xml file into an editor and look at its contents, then you have to serialize the in-memory data (a DOM in this case, right?) to a file. Cheers, Tom P
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