[Doc-SIG] Ambiguity in default output for publish_string

[Georg Brandl]

Jeffrey C. Jacobs schrieb:

> However, when publish_string is called to output the tree for both of
> these expressions, they both return:
> 
> <document source="<string>">
>     <paragraph>
>         This paragraph has a very funny 
>         <strong>
>             indent
>             after that word, right?
> 
> which is not different.  As far as I can tell, the internal node structure
> is correct, it's just when the node structure is displayed in string form,
> the default function of publish_string.  Since this output is a
> serialization of the node structure, it seems that the output to
> publish_string should not be ambiguous in terms of what it truly
> represents.  Or, is there a better way to represent the internal doc tree
> unambiguously as a string?

What you see there is the "pseudo-XML" output format, which is nice for a
quick view but not unambiguous.

Try publish_string(..., writer_name='xml') for real XML output which is
unambiguous in all cases.

Georg