def to_xml(self, encoding="UTF-8", pretty=True):
dom = Document()
dom.version = "1.0"
dom.encoding = "UTF-8"
doc_type = DocumentType("plist")
doc_type.publicId = "-//Apple Computer//DTD PLIST 1.0//EN"
doc_type.systemId = "http://www.apple.com/DTDs/PropertyList-1.0.dtd"
dom.appendChild(doc_type)
plist_node = dom.createElement("plist")
plist_node.setAttribute("version", "1.0")
dom.appendChild(plist_node)
plist_root = dom.createElement("dict")
plist_node.appendChild(plist_root)
temp_pairs = [(self, plist_root)]
while temp_pairs:
data, root = temp_pairs.pop(0)
if isinstance(data, dict):
for k, v in data.items():
k_node = dom.createElement("key")
text_node = dom.createTextNode(k)
k_node.appendChild(text_node)
root.appendChild(k_node)
if isinstance(v, dict):
v_node = dom.createElement("dict")
temp_pairs.append((v, v_node))
elif isinstance(v, list):
v_node = dom.createElement("array")
temp_pairs.append((v, v_node))
else:
v_node = self._to_dom_node(v, dom)
root.appendChild(v_node)
elif isinstance(data, list):
for v in data:
if isinstance(v, dict):
v_node = dom.createElement("dict")
temp_pairs.append((v, v_node))
elif isinstance(v, list):
v_node = dom.createElement("array")
temp_pairs.append((v, v_node))
else:
v_node = self._to_dom_node(v, dom)
root.appendChild(v_node)
else:
data_node = self._to_dom_node(data, dom)
root.appendChild(data_node)
if pretty:
xml_content = dom.toprettyxml(encoding=encoding)
else:
xml_content = dom.toxml(encoding=encoding)
return xml_content