Eric Thivierge The technical side of animation.

 
from xml.etree import ElementTree as ET
 
from win32com.client import constants as c
from win32com.client import Dispatch as d
 
xsi = Application
log = xsi.LogMessage
collSel = xsi.Selection
 
def indent(elem, level=0):
	i = "\n" + level*"  "
	if len(elem):
		if not elem.text or not elem.text.strip():
			elem.text = i + "  "
		if not elem.tail or not elem.tail.strip():
			elem.tail = i
		for elem in elem:
			indent(elem, level+1)
		if not elem.tail or not elem.tail.strip():
			elem.tail = i
	else:
		if level and (not elem.tail or not elem.tail.strip()):
			elem.tail = i
 
def cleanxml(xml):
	elem = ET.fromstring(xml)
	indent(elem)
	strIndented = ET.tostring(elem)
	return strIndented
 
def cleanWriteXML(strFilePath):
	fOpen = open(strFilePath,"r")
	fRead = fOpen.read()
 
	fWrite = open(strFilePath,"w")
	strPrettyXML = cleanxml(fRead)
	fWrite.write(strPrettyXML)
	fWrite.close()
 
cleanWriteXML("C:\\Path\\To\\File.xml")