Unlike every other attribute I’ve run across, setting xml:lang kept failing with an ‘invalid attribute name’ error. After the jump is how I fixed it.
Python and lxml make things easy. Really easy. So I was a bit lost in the woods when it kept throwing an ‘invalid attribute name’ error when I would try to set the xml:lang attribute. After a bit of digging, I found This post on Ditanauts.org.
Turns out setting xml:lang is a little special. Where I begin to write the xml out looks like this:
topline = ET.Element('cXML')
topline.set("timestamp", timestamp) # set topline tags
topline.set("payloadID", payload)
Now where I was trying the same, eg topline.set("xml:lang", "en-US"), that wasn’t happening. Instead I had to do this, as Ditanauts makes clear:
attr = topline.attrib
attr['{http://www.w3.org/XML/1998/namespace}lang'] = "en-US"
Works like a charm.
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