Convert a long XML string into indented format

[Laguna]

Hi,

I have an XML file in a single long string. How can I convert it into
the nicely indented format as displayed by Internet Explorer using
Python?

Thanks,
Laguna

Input XML file (one continuous string without newline):

<!-- $Revision: 12 $ --> <!-- $Date: 12/13/04 5:13p $ --> <control>
<schedule> <minute>*/2</minute> <hour>*</hour>
<day_of_month>*</day_of_month> <month>*</month>
<day_of_week>*</day_of_week> </schedule> </control>

Output XML file:

<!-- $Revision: 12 $ -->
<!-- $Date: 12/13/04 5:13p $ -->
<control>
<schedule>
<minute>*/2</minute>
<hour>*</hour>
<day_of_month>*</day_of_month>
<month>*</month>
<day_of_week>*</day_of_week>
</schedule>
</control>

 

[Jim]

Hi,

I have an XML file in a single long string. How can I convert it into
the nicely indented format as displayed by Internet Explorer using
Python?

You want to pretty print. Have a look at
http://www.boddie.org.uk/python/XML_intro.html
for example.

Thank you to Paul, I've found that page useful,
Jim

 

[Laguna]

Excellent! This is exactly what I was looking for.

Thank you Jim!

My example code:

import xml.dom.ext
import xml.dom.minidom
doc = xml.dom.minidom.parse('myfile.xml')
xml.dom.ext.PrettyPrint(doc)

 

[Paul Boddie]

You want to pretty print. Have a look at
http://www.boddie.org.uk/python/XML_intro.html
for example.

Thank you to Paul, I've found that page useful,

Let me know if there's anything else that you think it should cover!
After updating the HTML parsing page and rediscovering some things (I'd
forgotten that PyXML supported HTML parsing, for example), it could
well be the case that the XML introduction needs some modernising, too.
Still, both documents are like reminders of forgotten Python library
functionality. ;-)

Paul