Hey guys, Thanks for everyone's input. I wanted to learn regular expressions, however I'm finding them to be quite evil. I think I've learned that it's always a good idea to make regex a very LAST resort. This is my opinion I'm developing on. In any case, I like the ideas mentioned here concerning using the XML parser to do the job for me. Thanks again everyone, I think I'll be going with the XML parser to do what I need.
Have a good day everyone. On 9/25/07, Stefan Behnel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Gabriel Genellina wrote: > > En Mon, 24 Sep 2007 17:36:05 -0300, Robert Dailey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > escribi�: > > > >> I'm currently seeking a python script that provides a way of > >> optimizing out > >> useless characters in an XML document to provide the optimal size for > the > >> file. For example, assume the following XML script: > >> > >> <root> > >> <Test></Test> > >> <!-- <CommentedOutElement/> --> > >> > >> <!-- Do Something Else --> > >> </root> > >> > >> By running this through an XML optimizer, the file would appear as: > >> > >> <root><Test/></root> > > > > ElementTree does that almost for free. > > As the OP is currently using lxml.etree (and as this was a cross-post to > c.l.py and lxml-dev), I already answered on the lxml list. > > This is just to mention that the XMLParser of lxml.etree accepts keyword > options to ignore plain whitespace content, comments and processing > instructions, and that you can provide a DTD to tell it what > whitespace-only > content really is "useless" in the sense of your specific application. > > Stefan > -- > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
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