Please consider this a reply to any unanswered messages I received in
response to my original post.
Dave Angel wrote:
What's your real problem, or use case? Are you just concerned with
diffing, or are others likely to read the xml, and want it formatted the
way it already is?
I'd like to
On Mon, 23 Nov 2009 17:45:24 +0100, Thomas Lotze wrote:
What's your real problem, or use case? Are you just concerned with
diffing, or are others likely to read the xml, and want it formatted the
way it already is?
I'd like to put the XML under revision control along with other stuff.
Thomas Lotze, 18.11.2009 13:55:
I wonder what Python XML library is best for writing a program that makes
small modifications to an XML file in a minimally intrusive way. By that I
mean that information the program doesn't recognize is kept, as are
comments and whitespace, the order of
On Wed, Nov 18, 2009 at 4:55 AM, Thomas Lotze tho...@thomas-lotze.de wrote:
I wonder what Python XML library is best for writing a program that makes
small modifications to an XML file in a minimally intrusive way. By that I
mean that information the program doesn't recognize is kept, as are
Stefan Behnel wrote:
Take a look at canonical XML (C14N). In short, that's the only way to get a
predictable XML serialisation that can be used for textual diffs. It's
supported by lxml.
Thank you for the pointer. IIUC, c14n is about changing an XML document so
that its textual representation
Chris Rebert wrote:
Have you considered using an XML-specific diff tool such as:
I'm afraid I'll have to fall back to using such a thing if I don't find a
solution to what I actually want to do.
I do realize that XML isn't primarily about its textual representation, so
I guess I shouldn't be
Thomas Lotze wrote:
Chris Rebert wrote:
Have you considered using an XML-specific diff tool such as:
I'm afraid I'll have to fall back to using such a thing if I don't find a
solution to what I actually want to do.
I do realize that XML isn't primarily about its textual
Thomas Lotze wrote:
Chris Rebert wrote:
Have you considered using an XML-specific diff tool such as:
I'm afraid I'll have to fall back to using such a thing if I don't find a
solution to what I actually want to do.
I do realize that XML isn't primarily about its textual
On Wed, 18 Nov 2009 13:55:52 +0100, Thomas Lotze wrote:
I wonder what Python XML library is best for writing a program that makes
small modifications to an XML file in a minimally intrusive way. By that I
mean that information the program doesn't recognize is kept, as are
comments and
