lxml objectify and Working with XML Tag Containing Periods

In reccent years, I have been working on automating Jenkin’s config XML files using Python and the lxml package.

However, one sub-topic I’ve never really learned how to do with Python is when you need to create or parse an XML tag that contains periods.

For example, Jenkin’s config files are notorious for having tags named like this: <hudson.triggers.Time…