Without looking at the tidtly source, I would expect that it is looking for closing tags, I. E.
<meta blah /> <br/> ________________________________ From: Gilles <codecompl...@free.fr> Sent: Wednesday, May 11, 2022 11:52:31 AM Cc: lxml@python.org <lxml@python.org> Subject: [lxml] Re: [newbie] lxml adds before each end of line On 11/05/2022 12:19, Charlie Clark wrote: It could always be a bug, but really we need a sample file to test. Which version of lxml and Python are you using? Here it is: https://we.tl/t-WowFCDBp5A Python 3.8.8, lxml 4.6.3.0 But, if all you want is pretty printing then I recommend simply using the command line tool tidy. I tried it before asking, but tidy fails with a few errors I don't understand. Here's the output from a full file (not the sample I uploaded): line 9 column 1 - Error: unexpected </head> in <meta> line 68 column 87 - Error: unexpected </li> in <br> line 73 column 1 - Error: unexpected </ol> in <br> line 108 column 1 - Error: unexpected </body> in <br> line 110 column 1 - Error: unexpected </html> in <br> Tidy found 0 warnings and 5 errors! ======== <meta name="generator" content="Namo WebEditor v4.0"> </head> … <li>blah:<br><?php<br>phpinfo();<br>?></li> … ======== Is it bad practice to include <br> outside plain <p>…</p>? Regardless, the origin of the problem is the unwanted addition of " " before each carriage return.
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