An option is to write the xml manually. That is, each object in your "model" (as in model-view-controller) has a "to_xml" method which takes a fileobject (sys.stdout is default), and writes itself in XML to that file.
Indents are controlled by some formatting mechanism. I personally use my "tabbedwriter": http://www.seanet.com/~hgg9140/comp/index.html I've done this with a lot of XML's and find it is easy to control and trivial to setup. Where there is inheritance in the "model", a lot of the XML output can be done by the base object(s). On Tue, 11 Jan 2005 17:07:14 -0500 Willis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm writing a script that edits and writes xml to a > gaim(http://gaim.sourceforge.net) configuration file. However the > problem I'm having is I've found no way of outputting xml in python > that preserves text nodes. > > i.e. gaim writes > ... > <account>willis</account> > ... > > in it's xml file somehow, and the best I can get python to do is: > ... > <account> > willis > </account> > ... > which gaim won't parse. > > but I was curious how can the toprettyxml() function change the xml so > drastically that it parses itself differently as illustrated in these > to lines, where the only difference is the writing function > (toprettyxml, and toxml. > > > xml.dom.minidom.parseString(xml.dom.minidom.parseString("<account>wil > lis</account>").toprettyxml("","\n","UTF-8")).getElementsByTagName("a > ccount")[0].childNodes[0].data = u'\n willis\n' > > xml.dom.minidom.parseString(xml.dom.minidom.parseString("<account>wil > lis</account>").toxml("UTF-8")).getElementsByTagName("account")[0].ch > ildNodes[0].data = u'willis' > > I know that printing with toxml() works, however toxml() also writes > everything on one line, something that is very impractical for > supposedly readable files. > > basically I'm looking for a way to print xml, where the output is nice > looking, but the text nodes are preserved perfectly, as in no extra > line breaks and tabs that toprettyxml() inserts on it's own. > > thanks > -Willis > > > _______________________________________________ > XML-SIG maillist - XML-SIG@python.org > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/xml-sig > -- Harry George [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.seanet.com/~hgg9140 _______________________________________________ XML-SIG maillist - XML-SIG@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/xml-sig
