from mapfiler import MapElementTree import ElementBuilder as EB m = EB.Element('MAP', DEBUG="ON", NAME="sl", UNITS="dd", EXTENT="%d %d %d %d" % (-180.0, -90.0, 180.0, 90.0) ) m.append(EB.Element('PROJECTION', '\t"init=epsg:4326"')) w = EB.Element('WEB') w.append(EB.Element('METADATA', '\t"wms_title" "My WMS"\n\t"wms_srs" "EPSG:4326"')) m.append(w) l1 = EB.Element('LAYER', NAME='"my layer one"', TYPE="POLYGON", STATUS="default", CONNECTIONTYPE="OGR", CONNECTION="data.shp") m.append(l1) c = EB.Element('CLASS', COLOR="255 255 204", OUTLINECOLOR="0 0 0") l1.append(c) l1.append(EB.Element('METADATA', '\t"wms_title" "My WMS"\n' + '\t"wms_abstract" "Cool Layers"\n' + '\t"wms_service" "GetMap"\n' + '\tWMS_SRS "init=epsg:4326"\n')) l2 = EB.Element('LAYER') l2.set("NAME", '"my layer two"') m.append(l2) MapElementTree(m).write("test.map")