Am 31.01.2019 um 14:09 schrieb Leif Halvard Silli:
I do not find anywhere in the above documententation of XXE’s
indentation settings, that XXE will not preserve 'the "physical
contents" of an XML file'. Instead I read "Default: checked." Which
means that XXE, by default, does indent XML code. And in that regard,
I think XXE faces the folloowing communication problem: For many
users, "indentation" is equivalent to "the physical contents get
presevered" - and that in XXE, there is no such link between
indentation and preservation. Which is confusing.
I think there is no need for preserving "physical contents", but there
is a need for
a) a human-readable ("pretty-printed") serialization of the XML DOM,
b) more rubustness of XXE against white space insertion by other tools
(as argued by Leif).
a) would include some form of indentation, but also that a start tag is
not appended to the end tag of the previous element. Possibly, such a
"pretty-printed" serialization may have to be user-configurable due to
different preferences. But if XML editor vendors would manage to agree
on a standard serialization, this may even allow using version control
tools (such as Git).
Also b) may have to be user-configurable due to different preferences.
I didn't see/get any argument why these enhancements would be
incompatible with the approach/architecture of XXE and therefore XML
Mind couldn't do this.
-Gerd
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