Small issue with REXML output

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I've just started working with REXML recently and have encountered a small problem. After composing an XML document I want to output it to file, currently I'm using xmlDoc.write theFile, problem is, the resultant file does not have newlines after each element. When openning the file in a text editor it comes in as one big line.

Any idea how to inject newline characters without a bunch of post processing? Must be a pretty straightforward.

Thanks.
Chris.

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if you do that it will not longer be valid xml. try

   puts doc.pretty

hth.

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On Fri, 23 Dec 2005, Chris Large wrote:

I've just started working with REXML recently and have encountered a small problem. After composing an XML document I want to output it to file, currently I'm using xmlDoc.write theFile, problem is, the resultant file does not have newlines after each element. When openning the file in a text editor it comes in as one big line.

Any idea how to inject newline characters without a bunch of post processing? Must be a pretty straightforward.

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Chris Large <ChrisLarge@shaw.ca> writes:

I've just started working with REXML recently and have encountered a
small problem. After composing an XML document I want to output it to
file, currently I'm using xmlDoc.write theFile, problem is, the
resultant file does not have newlines after each element. When
openning the file in a text editor it comes in as one big line.

IIRC, there is an parameter to xmlDoc.write. Try xmlDoc.write(STDOUT, 2).

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Any idea how to inject newline characters without a bunch of post
processing? Must be a pretty straightforward.

Thanks.
Chris.

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