Mailman 3 lxml removes spaces and line breaks in <head> - lxml - The Python XML Toolkit

June 24, 2011

      Hi all,

This small program:

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from lxml.html import tostring, fromstring
e = fromstring('''
<html>
    <head>
        <link href="/comments.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css">
        <link href="/index.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css">
    </head>
    <body>
        <span></span>
        <span></span>
    </body>
</html>''')

print (tostring(e, encoding=str))
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will print:

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<html><head><link href="/comments.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css"><link
href="/index.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css"></head><body>
        <span></span>
        <span></span>
    </body></html>
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The spaces and line breaks in head removed.
This happens even if we place the two <link> elements in <body>.
It seems blank text nodes (\s*) between head elements are removed.

How I can preserve spaces and line breaks between <link>s?

lxml removes spaces and line breaks in <head>

Taha Jahangir

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