diff -r 000000000000 -r 2e8eeb919028 configurationengine/source/cone/confml/confmltree.py
--- /dev/null	Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 1970 +0000
+++ b/configurationengine/source/cone/confml/confmltree.py	Thu Mar 11 17:04:37 2010 +0200
@@ -0,0 +1,74 @@
+#
+# Copyright (c) 2009 Nokia Corporation and/or its subsidiary(-ies).
+# All rights reserved.
+# This component and the accompanying materials are made available
+# under the terms of "Eclipse Public License v1.0"
+# which accompanies this distribution, and is available
+# at the URL "http://www.eclipse.org/legal/epl-v10.html".
+#
+# Initial Contributors:
+# Nokia Corporation - initial contribution.
+#
+# Contributors:
+#
+# Description: 
+#
+
+try:
+    from elementtree.ElementTree import *
+except ImportError:
+    from xml.etree.ElementTree import *
+
+
+class ElementTreeNs(ElementTree):
+    """ 
+    A class inherited from elementtree.ElementTree that can write
+    xml elements with qualified names. The xml namespaces that are defined 
+    to the self.namespases are written out to the root element of the given
+    root element.
+    
+    Example:
+    
+    elem = ElementTreeNs.Element('{http://www.test.com}test') 
+    etreens = ElementTreeNs(elem, None, {'foo' : 'http://www.test.com'})
+    outf = open('test.xml','w')
+    ElementTreeNs.write(outf)
+    
+    content of test.xml would be
+    <foo:test xmlns:foo="http://www.test.com"/>
+    """
+    def __init__(self, element=None, file=None, namespaces={}):
+        ElementTree.__init__(self, element, file)
+        self.namespaces = namespaces
+
+    def write(self, file, encoding="us-ascii"):
+        """
+        Writes the element tree to a file, as XML with the existing namespaces
+        
+        @param file A file name, or a file object opened for writing.
+        @param encoding Optional output encoding (default is US-ASCII).
+        """
+        assert self._root is not None
+        if not hasattr(file, "write"):
+            file = open(file, "wb")
+        if not encoding:
+            encoding = "us-ascii"
+        elif encoding != "utf-8" and encoding != "us-ascii":
+            file.write("<?xml version='1.0' encoding='%s'?>\n" % encoding)
+        # set the namespaces for the root element
+        for ns in self.namespaces:
+            self._root.set('xmlns:%s' % self.namespaces[ns], ns)
+        self._write(file, self._root, encoding, self.namespaces)
+
+
+def tostring(element, namespaces, encoding=None):
+    """
+    """
+    class dummy:
+        pass
+    data = []
+    file = dummy()
+    file.write = data.append
+    ElementTreeNs(element, None, namespaces).write(file, encoding)
+    return "".join(data)
+