On 5/27/10 7:52 PM, robert somerville wrote:
Hi I am using Ubuntu 9.10 and Python 2.6.4 ..
when I create an ElementTree object and the write it out using:
xml.etree.ElementTree.write() , I get one single long single line
files, instead of something that looks reasonable , what gives ??? (and
is it important ??)
ElementTree writes exactly what you tell it to. In XML, whitespace is
significant. If you want newlines and/or indentation to make it pretty-looking,
then you need to add those to your elements.
Fredrik provides an example function for doing this:
http://effbot.org/zone/element-lib.htm#prettyprint
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