[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I use Python/XML packages are xml.dom.minidom and xml.dom.ext (second > just for PrettyPrint)
You don't need xml.dom.ext for prettyprint. You can use doc.toprettyxml() I gather you want to tweak the prettyprinter to not add the newline before the comment. The only way to do this is to write your own printing logic, which is really not that hard, if you just start by copying the code from .writexml (used by .toprettyxml). But there's an even easier (if slower) way: pretty print the document, then parse it in again, remove the text node between the element in question and the following comment, and then use .writexml() to serialize it it again. A few general notes: * You cannot set the order of attributes in most XML tools, whether Python or not. This is unfortunate for people who would like to preserve such details for usability reasons, but that's just the way XML is. The closest you can get is by using canonicalization [1], which is available in PyXML as xml.dom.ext.c14n. It just so happens that canonical XML leaves the attributes in the order you want. You won't always be so lucky. * You can always create text nodes by using doc.createTextNode. * You can always remove text nodes (or any other kind) by using .removeChild * It's much easier to navigate if you use XPath. PyXML has an xml.xpath module you can use. Good luck. [1] http://www-128.ibm.com/developerworks/xml/library/x-c14n/ -- Uche Ogbuji Fourthought, Inc. http://uche.ogbuji.net http://fourthought.com http://copia.ogbuji.net http://4Suite.org Articles: http://uche.ogbuji.net/tech/publications/ -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
