title: How do I create an xml document in python
body: <p>Here is my sample code:</p>
  
  <pre><code>from xml.dom.minidom import *
  def make_xml():
      doc = Document()
      node = doc.createElement('foo')
      node.innerText = 'bar'
      doc.appendChild(node)
      return doc
  if __name__ == '__main__':
      make_xml().writexml(sys.stdout)
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>when I run the above code I get this:</p>
  
  <pre><code>&lt;?xml version="1.0" ?&gt;
  &lt;foo/&gt;
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>I would like to get:</p>
  
  <pre><code>&lt;?xml version="1.0" ?&gt;
  &lt;foo&gt;bar&lt;/foo&gt;
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>I just guessed that there was an innerText property, it gives no compiler error, but does not seem to work... how do I go about creating a text node?</p>