From: ara.t.howard@...
Date: 2005-12-23T14:28:10+09:00
Subject: Re: Small issue with REXML output

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.

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

   puts doc.pretty

hth.

-a
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