Re: [xml] Problem with XML output formatting

[Petyo Milotinov <petyo securax org>]

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        Thank you very much for your excellent answer, Gait! That is the
information I needed.

        Best regards,
        Petyo

Gait Boxman wrote:
> Petyo,
>
> for starters, I assume you switched the close tags for options and
> general in your example, otherwise it's not even XML.
> the formatting of the xml document is done through text. The general
> node actually contains:
>
> a text node ( "<0d>       " )
> the value1 element node
> a text node ( "<0d>       " )
> the value2 element node
> a text node ( "<0d>       " )
> the value3 element node
> a text node ( "<0d>   " )
>
>
> (don't punish me for the exact number of spaces, it's just an indication).
>
> When you remove the value2 element node, you end up with:
> a text node ( "<0d>       " )
> the value1 element node
> a text node ( "<0d>       " )
> a text node ( "<0d>       " )
> the value3 element node
> a text node ( "<0d>   " )
>
> so that's why you get the (not really) empty line. to get rid of the
> empty line, you'll have to remove the node after the value2 node as well
>
> when you then add the new value3 node in the end, you get:
>
> a text node ( "<0d>       " )
> the value1 element node
> a text node ( "<0d>       " )
> a text node ( "<0d>       " )
> the value3 element node
> a text node ( "<0d>   " )
> the other value3 element node
>
> and yes, when printed, the new node is placed right before the closing
> tag, after the text node that takes care of the indent..
> You'll have to handle the indentation yourself by handling the text
> nodes in code.
> Hint: drop any text nodes consisting of just whitespace after loading,
> and use an algorithm based on the depth of the node to add the
> indentation and line feeds just before printing.
>
>
>
>
> --Gait.
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