Greetings, perhaps someone can explain this. I get to different styles
of formatting for xmla and xmlb when I do the following:
from elementtree import ElementTree as et
xmla = et.ElementTree('some_file.xml')
xmlb = et.Element('parent')
et.SubElement(xmlb, 'child1')
et.SubElement(xmlb, 'child2')
root = et.Element('root')
root.append(xmla.getroot())
root.append(xmlb)
print et.tostring(root)
The output I get shows xmla as nicely formatted text, with elements on
different lines and everything all tabbed and pretty. Inverly, xmlb is
one long string on one line.
Is that because the some_file.xml is already nicely formatted? I thought
that the formatting was ignored when creating new elements.
Is their a function to 'pretty print' an element? I looked in api ref
and didn't see anything that would do it. It would be nice if their was
a way to create 'standard' formatted output for all elements regardless
of how they were created.
Comments and suggestions are greatly appreciated.
regards
-Matthew
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