RE: [xml] Formatting output

[Sean Middleditch <elanthis awesomeplay com>]

It does depend on your application; i was merely pointing out that, in
the event you are editing arbitrary xml, *please* do not
word-wrap/line-break just for the hell of it; it *will* break apps, and
isn't even anything to do with "machine" readble - humans have notions
of what line-breaks, paragraph indentation, spacing, etc. mean as well. 
Which is why some XML programs care about it all ;-)

On Thu, 2002-12-12 at 10:45, Brett Robichaud wrote:
> I am no xml expert or purist, but to me part of XML's huge benefit is its
> human readability.  If you take formatting away it becomes simply a computer
> protocol not unlike many others.  Don't get me wrong, I'm not bashing anyone
> here if libXML doesn't support it, but personally I'd love to see it as a
> feature.
>
> -Brett-
>
>
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Sean Middleditch [mailto:elanthis awesomeplay com] 
> > Sent: Thursday, December 12, 2002 6:36 AM
> > To: 'xml gnome org'
> > Subject: RE: [xml] Formatting output
> >
> >
> > 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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