Matthew Thorley napisaĆ(a): > 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.
Why want you to read an XML document "by hand"? It's a "machine related" data chunk. Document formatting should be done by means of CSS and/or XSL stylesheet. -- Jarek Zgoda http://jpa.berlios.de/ -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list