Hi, if I read in a value it is written with indent and line feeds like this: domdoc.writexml(of, "", "\t", "\n", self.encoding) value This behaviour destroys the value, since white space and line feed belong to the value after the next reading. I could circumvent this with strip(), but every XML validator raises an error, if value is an enumeration or boolean. CDATA has a similar problem. Thanks, Bernd
Logged In: YES user_id=21627 This is not a bug. Passing white-space arguments to writexml is specifically added for the purpose of pretty-printing. This, by design, will add whitespace to the output document that was not present in the input document. If you don't want pretty-printing, just don't pass these additional parameters. >>> import xml.dom.minidom >>> d=xml.dom.minidom.parseString("value") >>> import sys >>> d.writexml(sys.stdout) value>>> >>> d.writexml(sys.stdout);print value
Logged In: YES user_id=879395 So I should put a 5 megabyte XML file into one single line? You are kidding! White-space between tags is only relevant between end node tags (text or CDATA). I have a modified myminidom.py now, which tests if the child is a text node. So the output looks very pretty like this: value
Logged In: YES user_id=21627 If you want line breaks at certain points where pretty printing would not normally put them, you either need to traverse the tree yourself and put out XML in the form you like, or you can add explicit text nodes to the tree where you think they belong. Alternatively, you can, of course, modify minidom and use the modified implementation instead. I personally see no problem with having an XML file of 5 MB with no line breaks. Python will parse such a file just as efficiently as it parses a file with line breaks; most likely, all other XML applications have no problems with that, either.
