Thanks for the comments. Sound like I'm out of luck. :( Wai-yip
-----Original Message----- From: Simon Kitching [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, November 13, 2002 10:06 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Transforming XML document Hi, Unfortunately, you're out of luck. XML parsing just doesn't work that way. XML parsers are required to respect the contents of <i>text nodes</i> within an xml document, but in every other place whitespace is not significant according to the spec. You can either treat the input file as a plain text file (eg use perl to modify it), or you can treat it as XML in which case the XML parser will guaruntee to preserve the *meaning* of your XML document, but not necessarily its layout. For example, <x y="a"> (two spaces) in xml means *exactly* the same thing as <x y="a"> (one space). You do get to choose the "style" in which the output is generated (indented or not, how much indenting, etc) but you cannot ask for "the same as the input", because no existing XML parser bothers to keep that information around. Regards, Simon On Thu, 2002-11-14 at 18:36, Wai-Yip Tung wrote: > I am trying to make simple transformation on a XML document. Let say just > changing one attribute value. I want to keep everything else the same, > including white spaces. > > My first task is to parse and output a document identical to the input > document. It seems the sample code sax.Writer is a good example. > Unfortunately it altered the document in several ways > > - white space in an element is changed, e.g. > <x y = "a"> becomes <x y="a"> > > - The empty element becomes two tags, e.g. > <x/> becomes <x></x> > > Anyone can give me some direction? > > Wai yip > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
