import xml.dom.minidom as md

import io

if __name__ == "__main__":

dom = md.parse('../cd-list.xml')

for child in dom.childNodes[0].childNodes:

print('childnode', child)

for title in dom.getElementsByTagName('title'):

print('title', title.firstChild.nodeValue)

for track in dom.getElementsByTagName('track'):

print('track-no', track.getAttribute('no'))

root = dom.childNodes[0]

newcd = dom.createElement('cd')

artist = dom.createElement('artist')

artist.appendChild(dom.createTextNode('Bob'))

artist.setAttribute('country', 'DE')

newcd.appendChild(artist)

title = dom.createElement('title')

title.appendChild(dom.createTextNode('Song for Alice'))

newcd.appendChild(title)

root.appendChild(newcd)

fd = io.StringIO()

dom.writexml(fd)

print(fd.getvalue())