Hi Bruce, On Sat, Jul 25, 2015 at 08:12:39AM -0400, Bruce Miller wrote: > Hi all; > I find unindented XML to be virtually impossible > to debug, but... :-)
> Frankly, I'm impressed at how good the built-in heuristic > for formatting works (apparently the rule is: once it sees > mixed content, it turns off indentation below that level). > Of course, it isn't "correct" and is occasionally giving me > really messy problems. > > In principle, and perhaps naively, it seems the Correct rule > is rather simple, provided you have access to the DTD/Schema/whatever. The only correct rule is if there is a character on input it goes on output, the indentation is a trick but not what the standard suggests > Namely, if an element allows mixed content, do not add whitespace. > (and you CAN apply indentation on descendants that do NOT allow mixed > content). > > Is there some switch or method that I'm overlooking to > achieve this effect? no, indeed this would make sense ... assuming you have a schemas, etc... but when you serialize a document while the DTD *might* be available you can't really find out he RNG or XSD associated (or trust them, download them, etc....) it open a can of worm TBH. > Is this likely to be relatively easy > to implement? (I've managed to avoid learning libxml2's C API, > as I use it via Perl's XML::LibXML.) > > I'd hate to have to give up indentation or write > my own serializer.... have you looked at xmllint --pretty 2 it does pretty printing but without adding (or removing) any significant character, it uses only the non-significant spaces from within markup which are discarded at parsing time. I know it's not what you asked for but might still be useful :-) Daniel > Thanks; > bruce > _______________________________________________ > xml mailing list, project page http://xmlsoft.org/ > xml@gnome.org > https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/xml -- Daniel Veillard | Open Source and Standards, Red Hat veill...@redhat.com | libxml Gnome XML XSLT toolkit http://xmlsoft.org/ http://veillard.com/ | virtualization library http://libvirt.org/ _______________________________________________ xml mailing list, project page http://xmlsoft.org/ xml@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/xml
