Re: [xml] Question about saving XML files

[Daniel Veillard <veillard redhat com>]

On Thu, Oct 04, 2001 at 03:27:24PM -0700, Chris wrote:
> hello,
>
> (Does one need to be subscribed to the list to post ? It doesn't say on 
> the main page, but it didn't work when I tried ... so I am resending 
> this after subscribing)

  Well I generally approve post which are on-topic. I may have missed yours
in the middle of the flow of spam.

> I looked in the archive but couldn't find anything on this issue:
>
> I have a taxes application that used to use libxml 2.0. I upgraded to 
> libxml2 (2.4) and changed the various config/make file to use -lxml2.
>
> I haven't changed anything in the source code, but now the xml file 
> being saved has everything on one line (after the xml version tag). I 
> assume this is caused by the upgrade, but I'm not sure.
[...]
> That makes it a lot harder to read by a human, although my program can 
> read back both format just fine.
>
> I tried xmlSaveFile and xmlDocDump with the same result.
>
> How do I make my program output the "/n" so it's easier to read by a 
> person ?

  It's actually an FAQ:
    http://xmlsoft.org/FAQ.html#Developer
it's item 1/, I hope it answers the question.

Daniel

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