How can I remove the whitespaces and line breaks in an XML string in Python 2.6? I tried the following packages:
etree: This snippet keeps the original whitespaces:
xmlStr = '''<root>
<head></head>
<content></content>
</root>'''
xmlElement = xml.etree.ElementTree.XML(xmlStr)
xmlStr = xml.etree.ElementTree.tostring(xmlElement, 'UTF-8')
print xmlStr
I can not use Python 2.7 which would provide the method parameter.
minidom: just the same:
xmlDocument = xml.dom.minidom.parseString(xmlStr)
xmlStr = xmlDocument.toprettyxml(indent='', newl='', encoding='UTF-8')