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gh-81623: Do not add whitespace to significant content when pretty-printing (GH-156660)
Pretty-printing added whitespace inside an element which contains text, which changed its content. Now xml.dom.minidom.Node.toprettyxml() and xml.etree.ElementTree.indent() do not add whitespace inside an element which is marked with xml:space="preserve" or which contains text. toprettyxml() also takes into account the content model declared in the DTD: only white space in element content is ignorable.
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‎Doc/library/xml.dom.minidom.rst‎

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The *standalone* argument behaves exactly as in :meth:`writexml`.
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No indentation is added inside an element
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which is marked with ``xml:space="preserve"``,
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which is declared in the DTD as not having element content,
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or, in absence of such declaration, which contains text,
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because this would change its content.
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.. versionchanged:: 3.8
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The :meth:`toprettyxml` method now preserves the attribute order specified
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by the user.
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.. versionchanged:: 3.9
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The *standalone* parameter was added.
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.. versionchanged:: next
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Whitespace is no longer added inside an element with mixed content
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or marked with ``xml:space="preserve"``.
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.. _dom-example:
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DOM Example

‎Doc/library/xml.etree.elementtree.rst‎

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characters by default. For indenting partial subtrees inside of an
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already indented tree, pass the initial indentation level as *level*.
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No whitespace is added inside an element
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which is marked with ``xml:space="preserve"``
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or which contains text, because this would change its content.
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.. versionadded:: 3.9
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.. versionchanged:: next
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Whitespace is no longer added inside an element with mixed content
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or marked with ``xml:space="preserve"``.
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.. function:: iselement(element)
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‎Doc/whatsnew/3.16.rst‎

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and :meth:`!Document.createEntityReference`.
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(Contributed by Jason Orendorff and Serhiy Storchaka in :gh:`44871`.)
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* :meth:`~xml.dom.minidom.Node.toprettyxml` in :mod:`xml.dom.minidom`
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and :func:`~xml.etree.ElementTree.indent` in :mod:`xml.etree.ElementTree`
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no longer add whitespace inside an element
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which is marked with ``xml:space="preserve"`` or which contains text.
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:meth:`!toprettyxml` also takes into account
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the content model declared in the DTD.
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(Contributed by Serhiy Storchaka in :gh:`81623`.)
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* Add :meth:`!GetSpecifiedAttributeCount` method
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to the :mod:`XML parser <xml.parsers.expat>` objects.
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It tells how many of the reported attributes were given in the start tag
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Attributes defaulted in the DTD are no longer omitted when parsing.
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(Contributed by Jason Orendorff and Serhiy Storchaka in :gh:`44871`.)
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* :meth:`~xml.dom.minidom.Node.toprettyxml` in :mod:`xml.dom.minidom`
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and :func:`~xml.etree.ElementTree.indent` in :mod:`xml.etree.ElementTree`
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no longer add whitespace inside an element
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which is marked with ``xml:space="preserve"`` or which contains text,
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because this changed the content of the element.
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:meth:`!toprettyxml` also takes into account
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the content model declared in the DTD.
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(Contributed by Serhiy Storchaka in :gh:`81623`.)
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* On Windows, seeking a pipe now fails instead of silently appearing to
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succeed: :func:`os.lseek` and :meth:`~io.IOBase.seek` raise :exc:`OSError`,
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and :meth:`~io.IOBase.seekable` returns ``False``. As a consequence,

‎Lib/test/test_minidom.py‎

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self.assertEqual(domstr, str.replace("\n", "\r\n"))
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def test_toprettyxml_with_text_nodes(self):
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# see issue #4147, text nodes are not indented
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# see gh-48397 and gh-81623,
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# the content of an element with text is not changed
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decl = '<?xml version="1.0" ?>\n'
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self.assertEqual(parseString('<B>A</B>').toprettyxml(),
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decl + '<B>A</B>\n')
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self.assertEqual(parseString('<C>A<B>A</B></C>').toprettyxml(),
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decl + '<C>\n\tA\n\t<B>A</B>\n</C>\n')
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decl + '<C>A<B>A</B></C>\n')
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self.assertEqual(parseString('<C><B>A</B>A</C>').toprettyxml(),
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decl + '<C>\n\t<B>A</B>\n\tA\n</C>\n')
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decl + '<C><B>A</B>A</C>\n')
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self.assertEqual(parseString('<C><B>A</B><B>A</B></C>').toprettyxml(),
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decl + '<C>\n\t<B>A</B>\n\t<B>A</B>\n</C>\n')
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self.assertEqual(parseString('<C><B>A</B>A<B>A</B></C>').toprettyxml(),
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decl + '<C>\n\t<B>A</B>\n\tA\n\t<B>A</B>\n</C>\n')
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decl + '<C><B>A</B>A<B>A</B></C>\n')
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# toprettyxml treats whitespace between elements as insignificant
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self.assertEqual(parseString('<C> <B>A</B> </C>').toprettyxml(),
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decl + '<C>\n\t \n\t<B>A</B>\n\t \n</C>\n')
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def test_toprettyxml_with_adjacent_text_nodes(self):
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# see issue #4147, adjacent text nodes are indented normally
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# see gh-81623, adjacent text nodes are not separated
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dom = Document()
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elem.appendChild(dom.createTextNode('TEXT'))
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elem.appendChild(dom.createTextNode('TEXT'))
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dom.appendChild(elem)
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decl = '<?xml version="1.0" ?>\n'
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self.assertEqual(dom.toprettyxml(),
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decl + '<elem>\n\tTEXT\n\tTEXT\n</elem>\n')
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self.assertEqual(dom.toprettyxml(), decl + '<elem>TEXTTEXT</elem>\n')
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def test_toprettyxml_preserve(self):
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decl = '<?xml version="1.0" ?>\n'
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# xml:space="preserve" applies to the whole subtree
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self.assertEqual(
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parseString('<C xml:space="preserve"><B>A</B><B>A</B></C>'
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).toprettyxml(),
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decl + '<C xml:space="preserve"><B>A</B><B>A</B></C>\n')
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self.assertEqual(
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parseString('<C xml:space="preserve"><B><D/></B></C>'
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).toprettyxml(),
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decl + '<C xml:space="preserve"><B><D/></B></C>\n')
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# other values do not preserve whitespace
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self.assertEqual(
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parseString('<C xml:space="default"><B>A</B></C>').toprettyxml(),
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decl + '<C xml:space="default">\n\t<B>A</B>\n</C>\n')
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def test_toprettyxml_with_non_xml_whitespace(self):
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# only " \t\r\n" are whitespace in XML (see XML 1.0, 2.3)
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decl = '<?xml version="1.0" ?>\n'
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self.assertEqual(parseString('<C>\xa0<B>A</B></C>').toprettyxml(),
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decl + '<C>\xa0<B>A</B></C>\n')
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def test_toprettyxml_with_dtd(self):
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decl = '<?xml version="1.0" ?>\n'
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# only whitespace in element content is ignorable
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doctype = ('<!DOCTYPE C [<!ELEMENT C (#PCDATA|B)*>'
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self.assertEqual(
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parseString(doctype + '<C><B>A</B><B>A</B></C>').toprettyxml(),
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decl + doctype + '\n<C><B>A</B><B>A</B></C>\n')
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doctype = '<!DOCTYPE C [<!ELEMENT C (B)*><!ELEMENT B (#PCDATA)>]>'
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self.assertEqual(
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parseString(doctype + '<C><B>A</B><B>A</B></C>').toprettyxml(),
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decl + doctype + '\n<C>\n\t<B>A</B>\n\t<B>A</B>\n</C>\n')
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def test_toprettyxml_with_cdata_section(self):
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decl = '<?xml version="1.0" ?>\n'
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self.assertEqual(
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parseString('<C><![CDATA[A]]><B>A</B></C>').toprettyxml(),
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def test_toprettyxml_preserves_content_of_text_node(self):
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‎Lib/test/test_xml_etree.py‎

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‎Lib/xml/dom/minidom.py‎

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‎Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2026-08-30-18-00-00.gh-issue-81623.Vh2Kt6.rst‎

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:meth:`~xml.dom.minidom.Node.toprettyxml` in :mod:`xml.dom.minidom` and
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