On Mon, Jan 12, 2009 at 12:27:20PM +0100, Roan Kattouw wrote: > and because stripping indentation reduces the size of the output, saving > bandwidth (it may not seem like much for one small request like this > one, but for many and/or large requests, it certainly makes a > difference).
It also saves a slight bit of CPU time, because the generating code doesnt have to track indentation levels or add the spaces for indenting. > If your desire for indented XML is for viewing of downloaded XML, just > open your XML file in Firefox. For other purposes, you could look for an > XML prettifier, which I'm sure has to be available somewhere. You can throw one together easily enough in PHP, if your local PHP has the DOM extension enabled: Just load the API output into a new DOMDocument, set the formatOutput property to a true value, and save it. You should be able to do the same using the XML libraries in just about any other language. _______________________________________________ Mediawiki-api mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-api
