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I have a text element within an SVG file that I'm generating using lxml. I want to preserve whitespace in this element. I create the text element and then attempt to .set() the xml:space to preserve but nothing I try seems to work. I'm probably missing something conceptually. Any ideas?
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lxml. etree supports parsing XML in a number of ways and from all important sources, namely strings, files, URLs (http/ftp) and file-like objects. The main parse functions are fromstring() and parse(), both called with the source as first argument.
Returns a sequence or iterator of all elements in the subtree in document order (depth first pre-order), starting with this element. Can be restricted to find only elements with specific tags, see iter. Deprecated: Note that this method is deprecated as of ElementTree 1.3 and lxml 2.0.
It almost is. lxml is not written in plain Python, because it interfaces with two C libraries: libxml2 and libxslt.
You can do it by explicitly specifying the namespace URI associated with the special xml: prefix (see http://www.w3.org/XML/1998/namespace).
from lxml import etree
root = etree.Element("root")
root.set("{http://www.w3.org/XML/1998/namespace}space", "preserve")
print etree.tostring(root)
Output:
<root xml:space="preserve"/>
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