PyTextile Question

[Josh English]

I am working with an XML database and have large chunks of text in certain child and grandchildren nodes.

Because I consider well-formed XML to wrap at 70 characters and indent children, I end up with a lot of extra white space in the node.text string. (I parse with ElementTree.)

I thought about using pytextile to convert this text to HTML for a nicer display option, using a wx.HTMLWindow (I don't need much in the way of fancy HTML for this application.)

However, when I convert my multiple-paragraph text object with textile, my original line breaks are preserved. Since I'm going to HTML, I d'nt want my line breaks preserved.

Example (may be munged, formatting-wise):
<pre>
<action>
   <description>This is a long multi-line description
        with several paragraphs and hopefully, eventually,
        proper HTML P-tags.

        This is a new paragraph. It should be surrounded
        by its own P-tag.

        Hopefully (again), I won't have a bunch of unwanted
        BR tags thrown in.
    </description>
</action>
</pre>

I've tried several ways of pre-processing the text in the node, but pytextile still gives me line breaks.

Any suggestions? Is there a good tutorial for PyTextile that I haven't found?

Thanks.

Josh