John Salerno wrote: > John Salerno wrote: > > I've been doing a little studying of ElementTree and it doesn't seem > > very satisfactory for writing XML files that are properly > > formatted/indented. I saw on the website that there is an > > indent/prettyprint function, but this isn't listed in the Python docs > > and I didn't see it after doing a dir(), so I guess it isn't a part of > > the Python version. > > > > Did I miss something somewhere else, or can you just not use ElementTree > > to write formatted XML files as they'd look if done by hand? > > > > Thanks.
You can roll your own by starting at the root and recursing through child elements, increasing the indentation as you go: But I do it the lazy way: $ xmllint --format ugly.xml >pretty.xml -- Wade Leftwich Ithaca, NY -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
