Re: [xml] Re: Added new child to DOM tree does not have line breaks.

[Daniel Veillard <veillard redhat com>]

On Mon, Mar 01, 2004 at 02:32:55PM +0100, Enno Rehling wrote:
> Daniel Veillard wrote:
> >  Formatting doesn't exist. You have text nodes containing formatting
> > spaces. The only way to be sure to get them is to generate them !
>
> In that case, I misunderstood the meaning of 'Format' in the name 
> xmlSaveFormatFileEnc(). The documentation says it will indent 
> automatically, and I assumed that included adding text nodes. So you say I 
> have to generate text nodes with spaces, which it will then use for 
> indenting? I'll give that a shot.

  if there is already a text node in the children list, then libxml2
will not output any more text node to not break any possible element with
mixed contentmodel.

> It seems like such a common task, though. Is there some functionality for 
> creating such formatting anywhere in the library, or does anyone have it?

  That could be a way to make "formatting" without risking to break 
some existing document data.

Daniel

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