formatted xml output from ElementTree inconsistency

[Jarek Zgoda]

Matthew Thorley napisał(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.

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