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Hi,

I want to construct an XML file with lxml but I don't find how to add
the '<?xml version="1.0"?>' header.

from lxml import etree as ET

html = ET.Element("html")
print ET.tostring(html)

simply prints
<html/>

Thanks,

Laszlo