Matthew Thorley wrote: > Greetings, perhaps someone can explain this. I get to different styles > of formatting for xmla and xmlb when I do the following: > <snip> > Is that because the some_file.xml is already nicely formatted? I thought > that the formatting was ignored when creating new elements.
ElementTree is preserving the whitespace of the original. > > Is their a function to 'pretty print' an element? AFAIK this is not supported in ElementTree. I hacked my own by modifying ElementTree._write(); it wasn't too hard to make a version that suited my purposes. Kent -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
