ElementTree write creates large one line XML file ....

[robert somerville]

Thanks Robert Kern :

"prettyprint" ; indent()  does the trick ;-)


>ElementTree writes exactly what you tell it to. In XML, whitespace is
>significant. If you want newlines and/or indentation to make it pretty-looking,
>then you need to add those to your elements.
>
>Fredrik provides an example function for doing this:
>
>   http://effbot.org/zone/element-lib.htm#prettyprint
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