I have a chunk of xml. I am using XML::LibXML to parse and mangle the data. If I unlink a node and then output the data to a file, the node is replaced by a blank line. Is there any way to change the behavior to not add the extranious whitespace?

Example:

Before xml removal:

<item1/>
<item2/>
<item3/>

After removing item2:

<item1/>

<item3/>

Here is the sample code snippet (And yes, I pull the list using XML::S
+imple.)

my $manifesto = XMLin($google_manifest);
foreach my $project (sort keys %{$manifesto->{'project'}}){
 if ($project){
  $project = 'a/aosp/' . $project;
  print "Project = $project \n";
  my $query1 = '//project[@name = "' . $project . '"]';
  my ($node) = $doc->findnodes($query1);
  if ($node){
   $node->unbindNode();
  }
 }
}
print $doc->toFile($new_manifest);

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Ideas?

In reply to Removing whitespace from deleted items in XML::LibXML by alan_olsen

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