XML beautifier?
Magnus L. Hetland
mlh at idt.ntnu.no
Fri Sep 3 08:57:09 EDT 1999
earlybird at mop.no (Alexander Staubo) writes:
> In article <19990902191223.A29226 at sz-sb.de>, ajung at sz-sb.de says...
> > On Thu, Sep 02, 1999 at 05:29:40PM +0200, Alexander Staubo wrote:
> > > I'm having a gas with the XML package and its DOM classes, but its toxml
> > > () mechanism outputs mainly flat XML -- no visual structure in the form
> > > of line shifts or indentation. Is there a Python module that such
> > > beautification reasonably hassle-free?
> >
> > Here is just a very stupid program which does the job.
>
> You're right. That was moronic. :)
>
> >It works
> > with regular expressions. You can although use the sgmllib
> > to parse the file, find the tags with the unknown_starttag() and
> > unknown_endtag() functions and indent the output corresponding.
>
> Thanks for the pointer, I'll check it out. Any examples of this though?
> This is one module I have to say I have never touched.
Why not just use xmllib? (I mean - why sgmllib?)
>
> > Cheers,
> > Andreas
> > ------------
> [silly code elided]
>
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