Preventing BeautifulSoup from converting my XML tags to lowercase

Question

I am using BeautifulStoneSoup to parse an XML document and change some attributes. I noticed that it automatically converts all XML tags to lowercase. For example, my source file has <DocData> elements, which BeautifulSoup converts to <docdata>.

This appears to be causing problems since the program I am feeding my modified XML document to does not seem to accept the lowercase versions. Is there a way to prevent this behavior in BeautifulSoup?

Answer 1

No, that's not a built-in option. The source is pretty straightforward, though. It looks like you want to change the value of encodedName in Tag.__str__.

Answer 2

• Simple Answer
  • change (default html.parser) to xml parser
    • code: soup = BeautifulSoup(yourXmlStr, 'xml')
• Detailed Explanation
  • refer my answer in another post