"Robert" <no-s...@non-existing.invalid> wrote in message news:hk729b$na...@news.albasani.net... > Stefan Behnel wrote: >> Robert, 01.02.2010 14:36: >>> Stefan Behnel wrote: >>>> Robert, 31.01.2010 20:57: >>>>> I tried lxml, but after walking and making changes in the element >>>>> tree, >>>>> I'm forced to do a full serialization of the whole document >>>>> (etree.tostring(tree)) - which destroys the "human edited" format of >>>>> the >>>>> original HTML code. makes it rather unreadable. >>>> What do you mean? Could you give an example? lxml certainly does not >>>> destroy anything it parsed, unless you tell it to do so. >>> of course it does not destroy during parsing.(?) >>
I think I understand what you want, but I don't understand why yet. Do you want to view the differences in an IDE or something like that? If so, why not pretty-print both and compare that? --Tim -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
