Fromatting an xml file

[sir_alex]

Hi! I have a little problem writing xml files formatted in a way like
the following:

<rootnode>
<node>bla</node>
<node>bla</node>
</rootnode>

Every new node element should have a tabulation before it, but when I
use xml.dom.minidom I use writexml, which considers as a new node also
the text (in my little example, "bla" phrases), so the best result I
achieved has been the following

<rootnode>
<node>
bla
</node>
</rootnode>

but I don't want the text to be written on newlines... is there a good
solution? Thanks!

[Harry George]

"sir_alex" <ch********@libero.it> writes:

Hi! I have a little problem writing xml files formatted in a way like
the following:

<rootnode>
<node>bla</node>
<node>bla</node>
</rootnode>

Every new node element should have a tabulation before it, but when I
use xml.dom.minidom I use writexml, which considers as a new node also
the text (in my little example, "bla" phrases), so the best result I
achieved has been the following

<rootnode>
<node>
bla
</node>
</rootnode>

but I don't want the text to be written on newlines... is there a good
solution? Thanks!

Based on recommendations from this newsgroup, I write XML directly,
instead of going through DOM. That in turn requires a mechanism for
tabbed indents, so I wrote tabbedwriter:

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[uche.ogbuji]

sir_alex wrote:

Hi! I have a little problem writing xml files formatted in a way like
the following:

<rootnode>
<node>bla</node>
<node>bla</node>
</rootnode>

Every new node element should have a tabulation before it, but when I
use xml.dom.minidom I use writexml, which considers as a new node also
the text (in my little example, "bla" phrases), so the best result I
achieved has been the following

<rootnode>
<node>
bla
</node>
</rootnode>

but I don't want the text to be written on newlines... is there a good
solution? Thanks!

That minidom behavior is fairly unsafe. 4Suite's PrettyPrinter is much
safer:

from Ft.Xml import Parse
from Ft.Xml.Domlette import PrettyPrint
XML = "<rootnode><node>bla</node><node>bla</node></rootnode>"
doc = Parse(XML)
PrettyPrint(doc) <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<rootnode>
<node>bla</node>
<node>bla</node>
</rootnode>

http://4Suite.org

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