I have extended the xml.etree.ElementTree.Element class and pass the text attribute in the arguments. This creates much more compact code:

import xml.etree.ElementTree as xml
        
        
class Element(xml.Element):
    def __init__(self,tag,attrib={},**attrs):
        super(xml.Element,self).__init__()
        self.tag = tag
        self.attrib = attrib
        self.attrib.update(attrs)
        self.text = self.attrib.pop('text',None)
        self.tail = self.attrib.pop('tail',None)
        self._children = []

if __name__ == '__main__':
    from sys import stdout

    test = Element('Hello',)
    test2 = Element('World',{'humour':'excelent'},text = 'How do you do', tail="Fine")
    test.append(test2)    
    xml.ElementTree(test).write(stdout,encoding="utf-8",xml_declaration="yes",method="xml")