26 Jul
2013
26 Jul
'13
4:21 p.m.
Hello, I'm using lxml's htmldiff function to (surprise) diff two HTML snippets. However I have found that if the snippet includes a <pre> tag then any newlines are stripped from it. For example:
html = "<pre>test\ntest2\ntest3</pre>" print repr(htmldiff(html, html)) u'<pre>test test2 test3</pre>'
Is there a reason for this, or better yet is there a way I can stop this from occurring? I was under the impression that inside a pre tag newlines and whitespace are handled differently and shouldn't be stripped like you can do with other HTML tags. Tom