Re: [xml] XML Formatting

[Daniel Veillard <veillard redhat com>]

On Wed, Jul 09, 2008 at 06:44:38PM +1000, Alistair Leslie-Hughes wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I have a xml document as follows
> <Testing>\n<Val foo=\"baa\">xxx </Val></Testing>
>
> Note the \n after <Testing>.
>
> If I load and then save using libxml, the formating appears to be lost.
>
> I've used  xmlNodeDump with format to 1 and xmlTreeIndentString="\t", and 
> yes it indents, but thew whole document.
>
> MSXML3 only formats the places that have a \n, in the example above it 
> would changed the \n -> \r\n\t.
>
> 1.Is there a way to reproduce this bahaviour?

  no

> 2. Is there a way to normalize EOL's to \r\n?

  no it doesn't make any sense from an XML processing perspective as
this will be changed back when parsing.
  http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-xml/#sec-line-ends
  doing this does not make sense from an XML perspective, if you want to change
it, post-process the XML document.

Daniel

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