Index: spongenet/trunk/spongenet/parse.py
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--- spongenet/trunk/spongenet/parse.py (revision 351)
+++ spongenet/trunk/spongenet/parse.py (revision 366)
@@ -140,5 +140,5 @@
 def xmldoc(path):
     """
-    Return the XML document as a list of strings from a file at path.
+    Return the XML document as a string from a file at path.
 
     Get the test reference data.
@@ -164,12 +164,12 @@
     Verify the test document matches the reference data.
 
-    >>> _xmldoc[0] == '<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>\\n'
-    True
-    >>> _xmldoc[-1] == '</root>\\n'
-    True
-    >>> len(_xmldoc) == xml_doc_lens[os.path.basename(_xmldoc_path)]
+    >>> _xmldoc.splitlines()[0] == '<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>'
+    True
+    >>> _xmldoc.splitlines()[-1] == '</root>'
+    True
+    >>> len(_xmldoc.splitlines()) == xml_doc_lens[os.path.basename(_xmldoc_path)]
     True
     >>> doc_hash = hashlib.md5()
-    >>> doc_hash.update("".join(_xmldoc))
+    >>> doc_hash.update(_xmldoc)
     >>> doc_hash.hexdigest() == xml_doc_md5s[os.path.basename(_xmldoc_path)]
     True
@@ -180,5 +180,5 @@
         _xmldoc = handle.readlines()
 
-    return _xmldoc
+    return "".join(_xmldoc)