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Hello, I made a program that takes one main XML file and update there attribute values = "Fail" based on other XML file attribute values. It works fine but I have one issue:

After parsing XML file it deletes whitespaces. Not only from the updated values but also from the main file. Is there any way to avoid it?

There is a picture showing someway what is my concerne:



I want to keep these values with more than one line.

Here is my code:

 import xml.etree.ElementTree as ET Mainfile = 'Mainfile_1.xml' tree = ET.parse(Mainfile) root = tree.getroot() fixfile = 'fixfile_1.xml' tree2 = ET.parse(fixfile) root2 = tree2.getroot() for objects in root.iter('object'): objid = objects.attrib.get('id') for attributes in objects.getchildren(): name = attributes.attrib.get('name') value = attributes.attrib.get('value') if value == 'FAIL': for objects2 in root2.iter('object'): objid2 = objects2.attrib.get('id') for attributes2 in objects2.getchildren(): name2 = attributes2.attrib.get('name') value2 = attributes2.attrib.get('value') if objid2 == objid: if name == name2: attributes.set('value', value2) tree.write('Mainfile_1updated.xml',xml_declaration=True, encoding='UTF-8')

Here is MainXML:

<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?> <Module bs='Mainfile_1'> <object name='namex' number='1' id='1000'> <item name='item0' value='100'/> <item name='item00' value='100'/> </object> <object name='namey' number='2' id='1001'> <item name='item1' value='100'/> <item name='item00' value='100'/> </object> <object name='name1' number='3' id='1234'> <item name='item1' value='FAIL'/> <item name='item2' value='233	233'/> <item name='item3' value='233'/> <item name='item4' value='FAIL'/> </object> <object name='name2' number='4' id='1238'> <item name='item8' value='FAIL'/> <item name='item9' value='233'/> </object> <object name='name32' number='5' id='2345'> <item name='item1' value='111'/> <item name='item2' value='FAIL'/> </object> <object name='name4' number='6' id='2347'> <item name='item1' value='FAIL'/> <item name='item2' value='FAIL'/> <item name='item3' value='233'/> <item name='item4' value='FAIL'/> </object> </Module>

And here is fix file:

<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?> <Module bs='Mainfile_1'> <object id='1234'> <item name='item1' value='something something111'/> <item name='item4' value='something 1something'/> </object> <object id='1238'> <item name='item8' value='something12 1something'/> </object> <object id='2345'> <item name='item2' value='something 12something'/> </object> <object id='2347'> <item name='item1' value='something14 13of something'/> <item name='item2' value='something 11something'/> <item name='item4' value='something14 something14 something12 13something'/> </object> </Module>