XML Pretty Printing

[Bill Scherer]

Paul Johnston wrote:
> 
> Has anyone seen or created a method to print XML docs with all appropriate
> whitespace and indentation?
> 
> Paul
> 
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The code below outputs 'pretty' xml, not beautiful ;-).  It requires
pyxie (www.pyxie.org).


#!/usr/bin/env python

'''xmlpprint hack'''

import sys, pyxie

xml = sys.stdin.read()

pyx = pyxie.String2PYX(xml)

pad = 0
for line in pyx.readlines():
    chr1 = line[0]
    if chr1 == '(':
        pad = pad + 1
        print '  ' * pad, '<' + line[1:-1] + '>'
        continue

    elif chr1 == ')':
        pad = pad - 1
        print ('   ' * pad)[1:], '</' + line[1:-1] + '>'
        continue

    print '   ' * pad, line[1:],

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William K. Scherer
Sr. Member of Applications Staff - Verizon Wireless
Bill.Scherer_at_VerizonWireless.com