[XML-SIG] xml.dom.minidom question
Andrew Clover
and at doxdesk.com
Sat Jul 24 04:53:39 CEST 2004
Mehdi Hashemian <mehdi.hashemian at spirentcom.com> wrote:
> I am not sure. Originally, I thought it is the way toprettyxml() works but I
> see the same behavior with toxml().
I don't, with your example code (tested Python 2.2 and PyXML 0.8.3
variants). For me, the output file when just the normal toxml() is used
is the same as the input (non-preservable document-level white space
issues nothwithstanding).
toprettyxml() does seem to insert extra newlines as well as indenting
white space, and puts in more space than is really necessary IMO. I
don't know if this can really be said to be 'wrong' though as prettiness
is in the eye of the beholder, not defined by any standard.
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