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Pattern to wrap XML content in outer tag, in order to get attributes in original root tag
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xml_wrap.py
from lxml import etree
from lxml.builder import E
if __name__ == "__main__":
with open('sample.xml') as f:
xml = f.read()
new_xml = E.Wrapper(etree.XML(xml))
print(etree.tostring(new_xml, pretty_print=True))
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