import xml.etree.ElementTree as etree

#Create a variable that points to the root Element
rootVar = etree.Element("orgchart")

#Create the CEO node and attach it as a child of the root
ceoNode = etree.Element("ceo", name="Vicky")
rootVar.append(ceoNode)

#Create the president node and fill in some data.
presNode = etree.Element("president")
presNode.attrib["name"] = "Herbet T. Walker, III"
presNode.attrib["salary"] = "$234,000"
presNode.text="Make Money!"
rootVar.append(presNode)


#Create 3 VP nodes from a list of data:
data = [ ("Marketing", "Sally", "Get Customers!"),
           ("Sales", "Tom", "Make Sales!"),
           ("Production", "Cindy", "Build Widgets!") ]

#Dynamicly generate one VP element for each tuple in the list!
for VP in data:
    typeStr = VP[0]
    nameStr = VP[1]
    motoStr = VP[2]
    vpNode = etree.SubElement(presNode, "vp", name=nameStr, vptype=typeStr)
    vpNode.text = motoStr


#Create a tree from the root of our XML hierarchy and write the tree
ourTree = etree.ElementTree(rootVar)
ourTree.write("orgchart.xml", "UTF-8")  #Always use UTF-8