Hello Monks,
I'm fairly new to Perl and started recently to learn Perl to parse and work with XML files. Pretty neat and easy.
I'm currently using ::LibXML and having formatting problem. I am adding new node to an existing node using

$old_node->addChild($new_node);

worked fine but the formatting of each file is different for example my output would look something like:

<root_tag>
  <element1>text</element1>
   #space
  <element2>text</element2>
   #space
  <element3>txt</element3>
  <new_node>
    <new_element1>text</new_element1>
    <new_element2>text</new_element2><new_element3>
    </new_element3>
  </new_node>

</root_tag>

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in the above example my existing XML file has spaces between elements, where my new source file doesn't i.e <new_node>.
also the tags gets missed up when copied i.e <new_element2>text</new_element2><new_element3>
indentation is also not precise. Im outputting my results to a file using
$new_object->toString(2;);
$new_object->toFile('file_name.xml');
so in summary the question is whats the best way when using LibXML to get a nice formatted XML output.

In reply to XML output formatting by Anonymous Monk

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