A bug in pindent.py?

[Magnus Lie Hetland]

I've been taking a look at changing xml files into
Python programs with xslt (for applications like
psp etc.) What I do, is change something like

<foo>
   bar
   <script language="python">
      print "2*2 is", 2*2
   </script>
</foo>

into something like:

print '''<foo>
   bar
   '''
      print "2*2 is", 2*2

print '''
</foo>'''


Obviously, the indentation isn't correct here. My hope
was that I could use pindent.py (from the standard
Tools/scripts directory) to fix this, using # end foo
tags where necessary. However, it seems that pindent
also destroys triple-quoted strings, so the result is:

print '''<foo>
bar
'''
print "2*2 is, 2*2

print '''
</foo>'''

Admittedly, this works, and the xml is still well-formed,
but I'm sure there are cases (like in xhtml <pre> tags
containing Python examples) where this would foul up the
result beyond the pure aesthetics of xml indentation.

I just wanted to hear if anybody knows of an alternative
solution, or if anybody was willing to fix this. Otherwise
I might try to write a patch myself, or, failing that,
write a separate tool... (This may, of course, be solvable
completely in xslt, though I'm not sure how.)

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