添加新元素后,lxml库不向树添加换行符或缩进

时间:2015-07-27 17:08:18

标签: python xml lxml

标题是自我解释的,在将其标记为重复之前,请考虑我已经检查this answer并且它对我不起作用,因为我甚至没有在sys.stdout中获得正确的格式提交。所以我有以下xml( test.xml ):

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<soap:Envelope xmlns:soap="http://www...">
  <soap:Body>
    <SubmitTransaction xmlns="http://www.">
      <Authentication>
      </Authentication>
      <Transaction>
        <DataFields>
        </DataFields>
      </Transaction>
    </SubmitTransaction>
  </soap:Body>
</soap:Envelope>

以下代码:

from lxml import etree

parser = etree.XMLParser(remove_blank_text=True)
tree = etree.parse("test.xml", parser)

def get_data_fields():
    for node in tree.iter():
        if 'DataFields' in node.tag:
            return node
a = get_data_fields()
field = etree.Element('Field_1')
child_1 = etree.Element('FieldName')
child_2 = etree.Element('FieldValue')
child_3 = etree.Element('FieldIndex')
child_1.text = 'dateTime'
child_2.text = '2016-07-29T12:00:00'
child_3.text = '1'

for i in [child_1, child_2, child_3]:
    field.append(i)
a.append(field)

s = etree.tostring(tree, pretty_print=True)
print(s.decode('utf-8'))

输出

<soap:Envelope xmlns:soap="http://www...">
  <soap:Body>
    <SubmitTransaction xmlns="http://www.">
      <Authentication>
      </Authentication>
      <Transaction>
        <DataFields>
        <Field_1><FieldName>dateTime</FieldName><FieldValue>2016-07-29T12:00:00</FieldValue><FieldIndex>1</FieldIndex></Field_1></DataFields>
      </Transaction>
    </SubmitTransaction>
  </soap:Body>
</soap:Envelope>

预期

<soap:Envelope xmlns:soap="http://www...">
  <soap:Body>
    <SubmitTransaction xmlns="http://www.">
      <Authentication>
      </Authentication>
      <Transaction>
        <DataFields>
          <Field_1>
            <FieldName>dateTime</FieldName>
            <FieldValue>2016-07-29T12:00:00</FieldValue>
            <FieldIndex>1</FieldIndex>
          </Field_1>
        </DataFields>
      </Transaction>
    </SubmitTransaction>
  </soap:Body>
</soap:Envelope>

我真的不明白为什么我添加的新字段没有格式化,因为如果我只打印field,一切看起来都很好:

s = etree.tostring(root, pretty_print=True)
print(s.decode('utf-8'))

#<Field_1 xmlns="http://www." xmlns:soap="http://www...">
#  <FieldName>dateTime</FieldName>
#  <FieldValue>2016-07-29T12:00:00</FieldValue>
#  <FieldIndex>1</FieldIndex>
#</Field_1>

注意:我正在使用python 3.4(这就是我必须.decode('utf-8')的原因,否则我只是得到字节文字。)

1 个答案:

答案 0 :(得分:2)

如果您在a = get_data_fields()之后添加此行,则可以使用

a.text = None

lxml无法始终确定哪些空格是可忽略的,因此在某些情况下需要手动删除空白。

请参阅http://lxml.de/FAQ.html#why-doesn-t-the-pretty-print-option-reformat-my-xml-output

  

如果你想确保从XML文档中删除所有空白文本(或者只是解析器本身的空白文本),你必须使用DTD告诉解析器它可以安全地忽略哪个空格,解析后手动删除可忽略的空格,例如通过将所有尾部文本设置为无: