即使在 pretty_print=True 时，使用 lxml 编写也不会产生空格

Question

我正在使用lxml 库来读取 xml 模板、插入/更改一些元素并保存生成的 xml。我使用etree.Element 和etree.SubElement 方法即时创建的元素之一：

tree = etree.parse(r'xml_archive\templates\metadata_template_pts.xml')
root = tree.getroot()

stream = []
for element in root.iter():
    if isinstance(element.tag, basestring):
        stream.append(element.tag)

        # Find "keywords" element and insert a new "theme" element
        if element.tag == 'keywords' and 'theme' not in stream:
            theme = etree.Element('theme')
            themekt = etree.SubElement(theme, 'themekt').text = 'None'
            for tk in themekeys:
                themekey = etree.SubElement(theme, 'themekey').text = tk
            element.insert(0, theme)

很好地打印到屏幕上print etree.tostring(theme, pretty_print=True):

<theme>
  <themekt>None</themekt>
  <themekey>Hydrogeology</themekey>
  <themekey>Stratigraphy</themekey>
  <themekey>Floridan aquifer system</themekey>
  <themekey>Geology</themekey>
  <themekey>Regional Groundwater Availability Study</themekey>
  <themekey>USGS</themekey>
  <themekey>United States Geological Survey</themekey>
  <themekey>thickness</themekey>
  <themekey>altitude</themekey>
  <themekey>extent</themekey>
  <themekey>regions</themekey>
  <themekey>upper confining unit</themekey>
  <themekey>FAS</themekey>
  <themekey>base</themekey>
  <themekey>geologic units</themekey>
  <themekey>geology</themekey>
  <themekey>extent</themekey>
  <themekey>inlandWaters</themekey>
</theme>

但是，当使用etree.ElementTree(root).write(out_xml_file, method='xml', pretty_print=True) 写出 xml 时，此元素在输出文件中被展平：

<theme><themekt>None</themekt><themekey>Hydrogeology</themekey><themekey>Stratigraphy</themekey><themekey>Floridan aquifer system</themekey><themekey>Geology</themekey><themekey>Regional Groundwater Availability Study</themekey><themekey>USGS</themekey><themekey>United States Geological Survey</themekey><themekey>thickness</themekey><themekey>altitude</themekey><themekey>extent</themekey><themekey>regions</themekey><themekey>upper confining unit</themekey><themekey>FAS</themekey><themekey>base</themekey><themekey>geologic units</themekey><themekey>geology</themekey><themekey>extent</themekey><themekey>inlandWaters</themekey></theme>

文件的其余部分写得很好，但是这个特殊的元素正在引起（纯粹是审美的）麻烦。关于我做错了什么的任何想法？

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下面是来自模板 xml 文件的标记的 sn-p（将其保存为“template.xml”以在底部使用代码 sn-p 运行）。标签的扁平化仅在我解析现有文件并插入新元素时发生，而不是在使用 lxml 从头开始​​创建 xml 时发生。

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<?xml-stylesheet type="text/xsl" href="fgdc_classic.xsl"?>
<metadata xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:noNamespaceSchemaLocation="http://water.usgs.gov/GIS/metadata/usgswrd/fgdc-std-001-1998.xsd">
    <keywords>
       <theme>
            <themekt>ISO 19115 Topic Categories</themekt>
            <themekey>environment</themekey>
            <themekey>geoscientificInformation</themekey>
            <themekey>inlandWaters</themekey>
        </theme>
        <place>
            <placekt>None</placekt>
            <placekey>Florida</placekey>
            <placekey>Georgia</placekey>
            <placekey>Alabama</placekey>
            <placekey>South Carolina</placekey>
        </place>
    </keywords>

</metadata>

下面是与标记的sn-p一起使用的sn-p代码（上）：

# Create new theme element to insert into root
themekeys = ['Hydrogeology', 'Stratigraphy', 'inlandWaters']

tree = etree.parse(r'template.xml')
root = tree.getroot()

stream = []
for element in root.iter():
    if isinstance(element.tag, basestring):
        stream.append(element.tag)

        # Edit theme keywords
        if element.tag == 'keywords':
            theme = etree.Element('theme')
            themekt = etree.SubElement(theme, 'themekt').text = 'None'
            for tk in themekeys:
                themekey = etree.SubElement(theme, 'themekey').text = tk
            element.insert(0, theme)

# Write XML to new file
out_xml_file = 'test.xml'
etree.ElementTree(root).write(out_xml_file, method='xml', pretty_print=True)
with open(out_xml_file, 'r') as f:
    lines = f.readlines()

with open(out_xml_file, 'w') as f:
    f.write('<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>\n')
    for line in lines:
        f.write(line)

Answer 1

如果你替换这一行：

tree = etree.parse(r'template.xml')

这些行：

parser = etree.XMLParser(remove_blank_text=True)
tree = etree.parse(r'template.xml', parser)

那么它将按预期工作。诀窍是使用将remove_blank_text 选项设置为True 的XMLParser。任何现有的可忽略空格都将被删除，因此不会破坏后续的漂亮打印。