Jeffrey C. Jacobs schrieb: > However, when publish_string is called to output the tree for both of > these expressions, they both return: > > <document source="<string>"> > <paragraph> > This paragraph has a very funny > <strong> > indent > after that word, right? > > which is not different. As far as I can tell, the internal node structure > is correct, it's just when the node structure is displayed in string form, > the default function of publish_string. Since this output is a > serialization of the node structure, it seems that the output to > publish_string should not be ambiguous in terms of what it truly > represents. Or, is there a better way to represent the internal doc tree > unambiguously as a string?
What you see there is the "pseudo-XML" output format, which is nice for a quick view but not unambiguous. Try publish_string(..., writer_name='xml') for real XML output which is unambiguous in all cases. Georg _______________________________________________ Doc-SIG maillist - Doc-SIG@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/doc-sig
