Dear list, Thanks for the suggestions and clarification. After playing with XML for a while I noticed whitespaces can indeed be more important then I thought. I did came to the following conclusions;
1. Removing whitespaces was done by my code, not by the xml.dom.minidom so I regret the fact I said that it removed whitespaces automatically 2. toprettyxml() should however be smarter with outputting the XML. If it adds whitespaces in the sake of formatting, it should check how many of the whitespaces are already there. Consecutive read / modify / write actions should not cause an explosive growth of whitespaces. When I use toprettyxml() I am obviously not interested in whitespaces in front of the text in the nodes, or else I would have outputted it differently. Thanks all for the feedback, - Jorgen -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
