epydoc help (putting XML in docstrings)

[Jean-Paul Calderone]

On 10 Mar 2006 12:49:29 -0800, "programmer.py at gmail.com" <programmer.py at gmail.com> wrote:
>Hi everyone!  I'm documenting some functions that return XML strings.
>I'd like to have `sample' xml show up in my epydoc generated
>documentation.  However, epydoc does not like the indentation of the
>XML and gives me this error ->
>
>L28: Error: Improper paragraph indentation.
>
>Here is a simple function that epydoc does not like:
>
>def test():
>    """
>    Return an XML string that looks like this::
>
>    <TRANSACTION>
>      <ID>123</ID>
>      <STATUS>D</STATUS>
>      ...
>    </TRANSACTION>
>
>    @return: XML string.
>    """
>    pass
>
>[jwyant at L-JWYANT:daplib]$ epydoc test.py
>Importing 1 modules.
>  [.]
>Building API documentation for 1 modules.
>  [.]
>===========================================================================
>C:\cygwin\home\jwyant\code\dap-support\python\daplib\test.py
>In test.test docstring (line 2):
>---------------------------------------------------------------------------
>   L5: Error: Improper paragraph indentation.
>
>Any ideas?
>

def test():
    """
    Return an XML string that looks like this::

        <TRANSACTION>
          <ID>123</ID>
          <STATUS>D</STATUS>
          ...
        </TRANSACTION>

    @return: XML string.
    """

exarkun at kunai:~$ epydoc test.py 
Importing 1 modules.
  [.]
Building API documentation for 1 modules.
  [.]
Writing HTML docs (10 files) to 'html'.
  [..........]

Jean-Paul