On 9/25/07, J. Cliff Dyer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > Robert Dailey top posted: > > Hmm, ElementTree.tostring() also adds a space between the last > > character of the element name and the />. Not sure why it is doing > > this. > > > > Something like <root/> will become <root /> after the tostring(). > > > The space was common practice in pseudo-XHTML code when people still > had to routinely support browsers like Netscape 4, which had no clue > about XML. It basically makes a uniquely XML construct into valid > HTML. Basically, the space makes unaware parsers treat the / as the > next attribute. Being an attribute with unknown meaning, the standard > practice is to ignore it, and hence, it is parsed properly in both > XHTML parsers and plain HTML parsers. I guess the practice just > caught on beyond the XHTML world. > > I don't know if there's a flag to get rid of it, but you can always > dig into the code.... > > Cheers, > Cliff > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v1.4.7 (MingW32) > > iD8DBQFG+ZXyGI3CK/MIt30RAkvhAJ0TAz4Y5ngDEVo9wnRwPhESh+D64QCcDjdM > JKT6H37LgX1Fk7665+Mqwh0= > =GcvK > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > > Right now I just run a trivial regular expression on the result of tostring() to remove the spaces.
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