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Twain on 12/29/09


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Indent XML using ElementTree

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This is a custom function in the elementree documenation, copied here for reference.

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  1. def indent(elem, level=0):
  2.     i = "\n" + level*"  "
  3.     if len(elem):
  4.         if not elem.text or not elem.text.strip():
  5.             elem.text = i + "  "
  6.         if not elem.tail or not elem.tail.strip():
  7.             elem.tail = i
  8.         for elem in elem:
  9.             indent(elem, level+1)
  10.         if not elem.tail or not elem.tail.strip():
  11.             elem.tail = i
  12.     else:
  13.         if level and (not elem.tail or not elem.tail.strip()):
  14.             elem.tail = i
  15.  
  16. def printxml(xml):
  17.     import xml.etree.ElementTree as et
  18.     elem = et.fromstring(xml)
  19.     indent(elem)
  20.     print et.tostring(elem)

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