Regular Expressions: Can't quite figure this problem out

[Robert Dailey]

On 9/25/07, J. Cliff Dyer <jcd at sdf.lonestar.org> wrote:
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> > Hmm, ElementTree.tostring() also adds a space between the last
> > character of the element name and the />. Not sure why it is doing
> > this.
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> > Something like <root/> will become <root /> after the tostring().
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> The space was common practice in pseudo-XHTML code when people still
> had to routinely support browsers like Netscape 4, which had no clue
> about XML.  It basically makes a uniquely XML construct into valid
> HTML.  Basically, the space makes unaware parsers treat the / as the
> next attribute.  Being an attribute with unknown meaning, the standard
> practice is to ignore it, and hence, it is parsed properly in both
> XHTML parsers and plain HTML parsers.  I guess the practice just
> caught on beyond the XHTML world.
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> I don't know if there's a flag to get rid of it, but you can always
> dig into the code....
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> Cheers,
> Cliff
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Right now I just run a trivial regular expression on the result of
tostring() to remove the spaces.
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