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Top Forums UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers Removing spaces between XML tags<XX XX> -> <XXXX> Post 302183635 by era on Wednesday 9th of April 2008 02:19:28 PM
Old 04-09-2008
This flies in the face of any proper use of XML but I guess you already knew that.

Are you sure you don't have any attributes anywhere? You can't squeeze out the space in something like <img src="fnord.gif"> without wrecking it.

Code:
perl -pe 's/<\s+/</g; s/\s+>/>\n/g; 1 while s/(<[^\s<>]+)\s+/$1/' filename

This adds the newlines between tags as well, in a slightly different fashion.

Neither perl nor nawk need to be spoon-fed with a cat -- just specify the file name as an argument.
 

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XML::Grove::AsCanonXML(3pm)				User Contributed Perl Documentation			       XML::Grove::AsCanonXML(3pm)

NAME
XML::Grove::AsCanonXML - output XML objects in canonical XML SYNOPSIS
use XML::Grove::AsCanonXML; # Using as_canon_xml method on XML::Grove objects: $string = $xml_object->as_canon_xml( OPTIONS ); # Using an XML::Grove::AsCanonXML instance: $writer = XML::Grove::AsCanonXML->new( OPTIONS ); $string = $writer->as_canon_xml($xml_object); $writer->as_canon_xml($xml_object, $file_handle); DESCRIPTION
"XML::Grove::AsCanonXML" will return a string or write a stream of canonical XML for an XML object and it's content (if any). "XML::Grove::AsCanonXML" objects hold the options used for writing the XML objects. Options can be supplied when the the object is created, $writer = XML::Grove::AsCanonXML->new( Comments => 1 ); or modified at any time before writing an XML object by setting the option directly in the `$writer' hash. OPTIONS
Comments By default comments are not written to the output. Setting comment to TRUE will include comments in the output. AUTHOR
Ken MacLeod, ken@bitsko.slc.ut.us SEE ALSO
perl(1), XML::Parser(3), XML::Grove(3). James Clark's Canonical XML definition <http://www.jclark.com/xml/canonxml.html> perl v5.10.1 1999-10-23 XML::Grove::AsCanonXML(3pm)
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