Re: [xml] possible problem with xmlSaveFormatFile

[Daniel Veillard <veillard redhat com>]

On Wed, Mar 05, 2003 at 11:59:26AM +0000, roger day globalgraphics com wrote:
> As you can see (if your mailer hasn't reformatted it beyond belief) the last
> products (those with productIdentity that contain attributes of Plugins and
> which represent nodes added by the second process) have not been formatted,
> although the others have. The file was written again using xmlSaveFormatFile.
>
> It doesn't effect the browser: it's seems to me that the function doesn't do
> what it says on the tin, although I could be missing something.

  Well, basically the formatting prefers to not make indentation than
to make an error by adding indentation. In that case I think it detected
that there was text nodes previous siblings and in this case it will
not add any indentation [*]. White spaces are significant in XML, and
if you really need to make sure there is some indentation the best is to 
generate the associated text node in your code.

Daniel

[*] maybe that detection algorithm can be improved but it would take 
    far more CPU cycles to serialize XML too...

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