Module cim_xml

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Functions to create XML documens and elements conforming to the DMTF standard DSP0201, Representation of CIM in XML, v2.2.

http://www.dmtf.org/standards/wbem/DSP201.html http://www.dmtf.org/standards/published_documents/DSP201.pdf

Elements generated by this module should conform to version 2.2 of the DTD:

http://www.dmtf.org/standards/wbem/CIM_DTD_V22.dtd

There should be one class for each element described in the DTD. The constructors take builtin Python types, or other cim_xml classes where child elements are required.

Every class is a subclass of the Element class and so shares the same attributes and methods, and can be used with the built-in Python XML handling routines. In particular you can call the toxml() and toprettyxml() methods to generate XML.

Note that converting using toprettyxml() inserts whitespace which may corrupt the data in the XML (!!) so you should only do this when displaying to humans who can ignore it, and never for computers. XML always passes through all non-markup whitespace.