XML beautifier?
Alexander Staubo
earlybird at mop.no
Thu Sep 2 13:47:13 EDT 1999
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.
> Cheers,
> Andreas
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