I wonder what Python XML library is best for writing a program that makes small modifications to an XML file in a minimally intrusive way. By that I mean that information the program doesn't recognize is kept, as are comments and whitespace, the order of attributes and even whitespace around attributes. In short, I want to be able to change an XML file while producing minimal textual diffs.
Most libraries don't allow controlling the order of and the whitespace around attributes, so what's generally left to do is store snippets of original text along with the model objects and re-use that for writing the edited XML if the model wasn't modified by the program. Does a library exist that helps with this? Does any XML library at all allow structured access to the text representation of a tag with its attributes? Thank you very much. -- Thomas -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
