Scratchpad:Creating XML Using lxml.objectify

E = objectify.ElementMaker(annotate=False,

    namespace=u'http://www.sitemaps.org/schemas/sitemap/0.9',

    nsmap={None: u'http://www.sitemaps.org/schemas/sitemap/0.9'})

# Create the XML

site_urls = [

    u'http://www.domain.com/home.html',

    u'http://www.domain.com/about.html',

    u'http://www.domain.com/contact.html',

]

urls = []

for url in site_urls:

    urls.append(E.url(E.loc(url), E.changefreq(u'monthly'), E.priority(u'0.8')))

urlset = E.urlset(*urls)

pretty_xml = etree.tostring(urlset, encoding=u'utf8',

    xml_declaration=u'<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>', pretty_print=True)

sitemap_file = open(config.get(u'sitemap.filename', u'autos/public/sitemap.xml'), u'w+')

sitemap_file.write(pretty_xml)

sitemap_file.close()