Re^4: xml::libxml open, add and save not formatting properly

Yes it is a little odd, I am using the 1 option as opposed to the 2 option as I don't like all the carriage returns :-) I've toyed and toyed with this for a whole day last week and it's just odd, that the document I created in the first place was with the same exact methods, steps etc as the 'revised' document. All this effort so I can make a new entry in this xml file and the lead on the project likes it a certain way.

I do thank you all for your input, even if I can't solve this the way I want, I have learned new things!

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Re^5: xml::libxml open, add and save not formatting properly by ikegami (Patriarch) on Mar 24, 2010 at 00:36 UTC
`xmllint` is a tool that uses libxml and comes with it. It's `--format` option does what you want. All the work appears to be done by a library function `htmlSaveFileFormat`. You could patch XML::LibXML to expose that function. You're not the first whose wanted a pretty print function from XML::LibXML. Update: The simplest solution would be to add an optional format argument to `$doc->toStringHTML` and swap in `htmlDocDumpMemoryFormat` for `htmlDocDumpMemory` in that function. Update: Never mind, `htmlDocDumpMemory` simply calls `htmlDocDumpMemoryFormat` with the format option set, and it doesn't help.	[reply] [d/l] [select]

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Re^5: xml::libxml open, add and save not formatting properly
by ikegami (Patriarch) on Mar 24, 2010 at 00:36 UTC

xmllint

--format

htmlSaveFileFormat

Update: The simplest solution would be to add an optional format argument to $doc->toStringHTML and swap in htmlDocDumpMemoryFormat for htmlDocDumpMemory in that function.

Update: Never mind, htmlDocDumpMemory simply calls htmlDocDumpMemoryFormat with the format option set, and it doesn't help.

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