What is the best way (or are the various ways) to pretty print XML in Python?
For converting an entire xml document to a pretty xml document
(ex: assuming you've extracted [unzipped] a LibreOffice Writer .odt or .ods file, and you want to convert the ugly "content.xml" file to a pretty one for automated git version control and git difftool
ing of .odt/.ods files, such as I'm implementing here)
import xml.dom.minidom
file = open("./content.xml", 'r')
xml_string = file.read()
file.close()
parsed_xml = xml.dom.minidom.parseString(xml_string)
pretty_xml_as_string = parsed_xml.toprettyxml()
file = open("./content_new.xml", 'w')
file.write(pretty_xml_as_string)
file.close()
References:
- Thanks to Ben Noland's answer on this page which got me most of the way there.