On Friday, November 4, 2016 at 2:32:24 PM UTC-7, Tong Sun wrote: > > How to beautify a given XML string in GO? >
As someone who has spent a fair amount of time in the complexities of XML, it is worth noting that XML is not equivalent to JSON in the context of your question. Only with a schema or a DTD for the XML instance in question can you be certain of whether or not white-space is significant. There's also considerations like canonicalization and normalization, which also don't apply to JSON. When generating XML from a data structure, you can already know where the data structure would ignore white-space. So it would be possible to generate "beautiful" XML in that context, but it has to be done as part of the generation. The beautification cannot be done *safely* by some tool after-the-fact, at least not without much further context (schemas, DTDs, etc.), or without assumptions by the user of such an API. > The xml.MarshalIndent() only apply to a GO structure, not XML strings. > Yes. See my points above. Eric. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "golang-nuts" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to golang-nuts+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
