Re: [xml] xmlIndentTreeOutput

[Daniel Veillard <veillard redhat com>]

On Thu, May 23, 2002 at 11:39:12PM -0700, Aleksey Sanin wrote:
> Hi, All!
>
> I have a question about xmlIndentTreeOutput global parameter:
> why do we need it in LibXML? It seems that the behavior is always
> controlled by functions "format" parameter:
>
>     if((format) && (xmlIndentTreeOutput)) {
>         ...
>     }
>
> so in all cases you probably want to have xmlIndentTreeOutput = 1.

  yeah, let's call that a remain from the past :-\

> However, the default value for xmlIndentTreeOutput is 0 and I spent
> a couple hours trying to understand why indent="yes" in <xsl:output />
> does not work :)

  well it does if you set it up :-)

> I have two suggestions:
>     1) remove xmlIndentTreeOutput completely (probably bad idea now
>     because it breaks api)

         yep I would prefer to avoid this

>     2) set default value to 1

         this sounds less disruptive, feel free to commit this !

Daniel

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