Regular Expressions: Can't quite figure this problem out

[Fredrik Lundh]

Robert Dailey wrote:

> Hmm, ElementTree.tostring() also adds a space between the last character 
> of the element name and the />. Not sure why it is doing this.

ET is commonly used to generate (X)HTML fragments, and that space 
provides partial HTML compatibility.

since the default serializer never generates CDATA sections, it should 
be safe to simply do a text.replace(" />", "/>") on the resulting string.

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