How to change the Element Name in XML using minidom + python

Question

<CCC>
    <BBB>This is test</BBB>
</CCC>

Here I need to modify the CCC to XXX. How do I do this using minidom and Python?

Expected Output:

<XXX>
    <BBB>This is test</BBB>
</XXX>

Answer 1

You can change the node name by setting the tagName attribute Try this,

tag_ccc = dom2.getElementsByTagName("CCC")[0]
tag_ccc.tagName = "XXX"

This should change the tag name to "XXX", below is the test code i used to confirm this using python 2.7

from xml.dom.minidom import parse, parseString
xml ="""<CCC><BBB>This is test</BBB></CCC>"""    
dom = parseString(xml)
tag_ccc = dom.getElementsByTagName("CCC")[0]
tag_ccc.tagName = "XXX"
print tag_ccc.toxml("utf-8")

Hope this helped.