Issue #17582: xml.etree.ElementTree nows preserves whitespaces in attributes
(Patch by Duane Griffin. Reviewed and approved by Stefan Behnel.)
diff --git a/Lib/xml/etree/ElementTree.py b/Lib/xml/etree/ElementTree.py
index 6d1b0ab..92821c5 100644
--- a/Lib/xml/etree/ElementTree.py
+++ b/Lib/xml/etree/ElementTree.py
@@ -1083,8 +1083,19 @@
text = text.replace(">", ">")
if "\"" in text:
text = text.replace("\"", """)
+ # The following business with carriage returns is to satisfy
+ # Section 2.11 of the XML specification, stating that
+ # CR or CR LN should be replaced with just LN
+ # http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-xml/#sec-line-ends
+ if "\r\n" in text:
+ text = text.replace("\r\n", "\n")
+ if "\r" in text:
+ text = text.replace("\r", "\n")
+ #The following four lines are issue 17582
if "\n" in text:
text = text.replace("\n", " ")
+ if "\t" in text:
+ text = text.replace("\t", "	")
return text
except (TypeError, AttributeError):
_raise_serialization_error(text)