RE: [xml] Formatting output

[Sean Middleditch <elanthis awesomeplay com>]

For what it's worth, line-breaking XML output is *evil*.  A lot of XML
editors do this, and thus completely break files used by various apps; I
use several of which, just as the XML spec states, _all whitespace is
significant_.  The output from these programs when using XML files with
****'d up XML (from the editors w/ line-breaks) is way weird.  Making
the apps "trim" spaces/new-lines isn't feasible, either, since often the
author of the files *wants* to insert various white-space
indenting/formatting (even for things as simple as the fact that there
are two spaces after punctuation like . and !, and only one space after
a , or ; or whatnot - something HTML/Web fails horrible to take into
account..)

On Wed, 2002-12-11 at 17:41, Brett Robichaud wrote:
> Hmm, yes I can see it is an interesting problem.  Dissapointing news but I
> guess I'm not surprised.
>
> Thanks for the quick reply.
>
> -Brett-
>
>
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Daniel Veillard [mailto:veillard redhat com] 
> > Sent: Wednesday, December 11, 2002 2:40 PM
> > To: Brett Robichaud
> > Cc: 'xml gnome org'
> > Subject: Re: [xml] Formatting output
> >
> >
> > On Wed, Dec 11, 2002 at 02:36:09PM -0800, Brett Robichaud wrote:
> > > I'm using libXML 2.4.28 on Windows and 2.4.25 on Solaris 8.  Can 
> > > anyone tell me how I can add a new tag to an existing document and 
> > > have it indent and linebreak correctly?
> >
> >   No. Because "indent and linebreak correctly" is not a 
> > problem which can be solved in the general case. "You know 
> > what indetation you want so add the proper text nodes needed 
> > to make that indentation" is the only correct answer.
> >
> > Daniel
> >
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