Wrap ElementTree text in SubElement tags

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I am trying to create an XML structure from a list of strings, where each string has a list of scopes, referencing token indices. Using this data, I want to create an xml structure of sentences and scopes.

For example:

string = "Hello this is a very nice string"
scopes = [[2, 3, 4], [5, 6]]

From this I want to create the following structure:

<sentence>
  Hello
  <scope>this is a</scope>
  <scope>very nice</scope>
  sentence
</sentence> 

I'm thinking something along the lines of this:

import xml.etree.ElementTree as et


def build_xml(string, scope)
    root = et.Element('string')
    root.text = string
    for scope in scopes:
        # wrap tokens at affected indices into scope tags

What's the best way to do this? Tokenizing the strings can be regarded as trivial.

asked 2 mins ago

jorgenfar

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Wrap ElementTree text in SubElement tags