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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:

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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>

Paqqno