xmlWriter: Tools for writing XML data

xmlWriter.py – Simple XML authoring class

class fontTools.misc.xmlWriter.XMLWriter(fileOrPath: str | PathLike[str] | BinaryIO | TextIO, indentwhite: str = '  ', idlefunc: Callable[[], None] | None = None, encoding: str = 'utf_8', newlinestr: str | bytes = '\n')

Bases: object

close() → None

write(string, indent=True)

Writes text.

writecdata(string)

Writes text in a CDATA section.

write8bit(data, strip=False)

Writes a bytes() sequence into the XML, escaping non-ASCII bytes. When this is read in xmlReader, the original bytes can be recovered by encoding to ‘latin-1’.

write_noindent(string)

Writes text without indentation.

newline()

comment(data)

simpletag(_TAG_, *args, **kwargs)

begintag(_TAG_, *args, **kwargs)

endtag(_TAG_)

dumphex(data)

indent()

dedent()

stringifyattrs(*args, **kwargs)

fontTools.misc.xmlWriter.escape(data)

Escape characters not allowed in XML 1.0.

fontTools.misc.xmlWriter.escapeattr(data)

fontTools.misc.xmlWriter.escape8bit(data)

Input is Unicode string.

fontTools.misc.xmlWriter.hexStr(s)