Fromatting an xml file
Harry George
harry.g.george at boeing.com
Fri Feb 3 10:09:27 EST 2006
"sir_alex" <chimaera29 at libero.it> writes:
> Hi! I have a little problem writing xml files formatted in a way like
> the following:
>
> <rootnode>
> <node>bla</node>
> <node>bla</node>
> </rootnode>
>
> Every new node element should have a tabulation before it, but when I
> use xml.dom.minidom I use writexml, which considers as a new node also
> the text (in my little example, "bla" phrases), so the best result I
> achieved has been the following
>
> <rootnode>
> <node>
> bla
> </node>
> </rootnode>
>
> but I don't want the text to be written on newlines... is there a good
> solution? Thanks!
>
Based on recommendations from this newsgroup, I write XML directly,
instead of going through DOM. That in turn requires a mechanism for
tabbed indents, so I wrote tabbedwriter:
http://www.seanet.com/~hgg9140/comp/index.html
http://www.seanet.com/~hgg9140/comp/tabbedwriter/doc/tabbedwriter.help
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