I used xmlSaveFile("file.xml", docTree); This just dumps the xmlDocPtr
docTree to "file.xml"
without any indentation. Is there any options in libxml2 to set it properly.

Thanks
Senthil


On 3/7/08, Stefan Behnel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> Senthil Nathan *top-posted*:
> > On Thu, Mar 6, 2008 at 11:33 PM, Stefan Behnel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> wrote:
> >> Senthil Nathan wrote:
> >>> I tried using the xmlCopyDocNode( ) and xmlCopyNode( ). It copies the
> >> node
> >>> but the indentation is not proper.
> >> There is no indentation in an XML tree, but there may be text nodes
> that
> >> contain whitespace. Maybe you didn't copy those?
> >>
> >>
> >>> How can we set the indentation in libxml2?
> >> What are you trying to do?
> >
> > That's true. But when I dump the tree to a file, the indentation is not
> > proper.
> > All the nodes that I copied are just continuous.
> >
> > The xml file generated after dumping from libxml2 with few nodes added
> or
> > copied,
> > <root>
> >    <level1>
> >       <level2></level2><level21></level21><level22></level22>
> >     </level1>
> > </root>
>
> Ok, so what are you doing to serialise this result? Are you using the
> "format"
> option? That will not always give you the expected result, as libxml2
> cannot
> easily distinguish between "ignorable" and meaningful whitespace.
>
> Two options:
>
> - parse with the XML_PARSE_NOBLANKS option to remove whitespace
>
> - copy the whitespace text nodes when you copy the element nodes
>
> Stefan
>
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