Removed XML formatter

Closes #443
Closes #389
Closes #415
Closes #384
Closes #394

CHANGELOG.rst

@@ -29,6 +29,8 @@ This project adheres to `Semantic Versioning <http://semver.org/>`_.
 * Fixed ``--session`` when used with ``--download``
 * Fixed ``--download`` to trim too long filenames before saving the file
 * Fixed handling of ``Content-Type`` with multiple ``+subtype`` parts
+* Removed XML formatting as the implementation suffered from multiple issues
+
 
 
 `0.9.3`_ (2016-01-01)

httpie/output/formatters/xml.py

@@ -1,61 +0,0 @@
-from __future__ import absolute_import
-import re
-from xml.etree import ElementTree
-
-from httpie.plugins import FormatterPlugin
-
-
-DECLARATION_RE = re.compile('<\?xml[^\n]+?\?>', flags=re.I)
-DOCTYPE_RE = re.compile('<!DOCTYPE[^\n]+?>', flags=re.I)
-
-
-DEFAULT_INDENT = 4
-
-
-def indent(elem, indent_text=' ' * DEFAULT_INDENT):
-    """
-    In-place prettyprint formatter
-    C.f. http://effbot.org/zone/element-lib.htm#prettyprint
-
-    """
-    def _indent(elem, level=0):
-        i = "\n" + level * indent_text
-        if len(elem):
-            if not elem.text or not elem.text.strip():
-                elem.text = i + indent_text
-            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
-
-    return _indent(elem)
-
-
-class XMLFormatter(FormatterPlugin):
-    # TODO: tests
-
-    def format_body(self, body, mime):
-        if 'xml' in mime:
-            # FIXME: orig NS names get forgotten during the conversion, etc.
-            try:
-                root = ElementTree.fromstring(body.encode('utf8'))
-            except ElementTree.ParseError:
-                # Ignore invalid XML errors (skips attempting to pretty print)
-                pass
-            else:
-                indent(root)
-                # Use the original declaration
-                declaration = DECLARATION_RE.match(body)
-                doctype = DOCTYPE_RE.match(body)
-                body = ElementTree.tostring(root, encoding='utf-8')\
-                                  .decode('utf8')
-                if doctype:
-                    body = '%s\n%s' % (doctype.group(0), body)
-                if declaration:
-                    body = '%s\n%s' % (declaration.group(0), body)
-        return body

httpie/plugins/__init__.py

@@ -11,7 +11,6 @@ from httpie.plugins.manager import PluginManager
 from httpie.plugins.builtin import BasicAuthPlugin, DigestAuthPlugin
 from httpie.output.formatters.headers import HeadersFormatter
 from httpie.output.formatters.json import JSONFormatter
-from httpie.output.formatters.xml import XMLFormatter
 from httpie.output.formatters.colors import ColorFormatter
 
 
@@ -20,5 +19,4 @@ plugin_manager.register(BasicAuthPlugin,
                         DigestAuthPlugin)
 plugin_manager.register(HeadersFormatter,
                         JSONFormatter,
-                        XMLFormatter,
                         ColorFormatter)