[issue17582] xml.etree.ElementTree does not preserve whitespaces in attributes

[Emiliano Heyns]

Emiliano Heyns <emiliano.heyns at iris-advies.com> added the comment:

I don't see newlines currently preserved in attributes:

   elem = ET.parse(StringIO('<test a="   \nab\n    "/>')).getroot()
   print(ET.tostring(elem))

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components:  -XML
nosy: +Emiliano Heyns
versions:  -Python 3.4, Python 3.5, Python 3.6

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