[Qgis-user] Project file format

[Paul Wittle]

Hi,

I know people will probably ask "why?" in relation to this question but I've got a Powershell script that I use to create copies of some QGIS projects because I want to change the data source of a couple of layers between dev and test. Rather than do this in QGIS it is done as part of an automation hence using Powershell; I've had mixed results trying to load the QGIS project standalone and so Powershell felt simpler.

Anyway; the issue I'm getting is that Powershell is adding a space between the last />. So <title/> will become <title />. Is there a way to set QGIS so that the project files are saved with the spaces?

The other issue I'm getting is that the attributes in the elements seem to be moving depending on who saves it. This is when using QGIS; not Powershell.

So I save the project using QGIS and I get:
<qgis projectname="" saveDateTime="" saveUser="" version="" saveUserFull="">

Someone else saves it on their device using QGIS and we get:
<qgis projectname="" saveUser="" saveUserFull="" version="" saveDateTime="">

Is this expected as I would have thought that QGIS would have kept this consistent?

The version is "3.16.0-Hannover" for all the users.

The reason I'm asking is that the files are in source control and given it is XML I would have expected it to be easy to identify what someone changed but due to the issues above it tends to claim that almost everything was changed. This is just because all the attributes are reordered and the spaces are being added to the end of elements as well. I can live with it but I thought I'd ask if there is a setting I can use that will ensure that projects save consistently really?

Any tips would be appreciated but if it is too technical a question they my apologises.
Paul
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