hd1/linkstoxml

root = Element('links')
FIELDS = ["Timestamp", "Link", "Recipient"]
with lzma.open(DATA_FILE, mode='r') as fin:
    links_ = csv.DictReader(fin, fieldnames=FIELDS)
    for link in links_:
        link_ = SubElement(root, 'link')
        date = SubElement(link_, 'timestamp')
        date.text = link['Timestamp']
        loc = SubElement(link_, 'location')
        try:
            loc.text = link['Link'].encode('ascii')
        except UnicodeDecodeError, e:
            next
return '<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>\n{0}'.format(tostring(root))