I concur with this as in a practical scenario, the new-line
character is especially troublesome, not worth the pain it creates
across multi-platform and multi-project systems. I would say if you
want to see a well indented output copy the response onto an editor
and use their auto indent feature or just view it off the IE.
But could you clarify as to what your requirement is.
Regards
AmitGhaste
At the risk of incurring the wrath of those who really don't think
XML should ever be reformatted, I'll point out that the xmlformat tool
allows you to reformat XML, with control over where whitespace can or
cannot be injected. (It also doesn't change entity references, but
that's another issue.)
http://www.kitebird.com/software/xmlformat/
-----Original Message-----
From: G. Ken Holman [mailto:gkholman(_at_)CraneSoftwrights(_dot_)com]
Sent: Friday, February 27, 2004 7:31 AM
To: xsl-list(_at_)lists(_dot_)mulberrytech(_dot_)com
Subject: Re: [xsl] how to make "well-formated" xml file from
xslt
At 2004-02-27 03:50 -0800, Ha Nguyen wrote:
I write an xslt file to transform an xml to another
xml file.
The processor is obliged to serialize the result tree without any
"formatting" ... that is, it is supposed to put out only as many
text
characters as there are characters in text nodes. The "formatting"
inside
of tags is arbitrary.
The output xml file is ugly i.e every tag
are aligned at the same level.
Ex:
<Diagram>
<Graph>
<Node>
....
</Node>
</Graph>
</Diagram>
Sounds like your transform must be inserting some newlines of some
kind ...
I would have expected:
<Diagram><Graph><Node>....</Node></Graph></Diagram>
How to make it look like "normal" xml file ?
My teenage daughter has a saying "'normal' is a setting on a dryer"
... I
don't believe there is such a thing as a "normal xml file" just as
there is
no such thing as a "normal teenager".
Did you mean "an indented XML file"?
<Diagram>
<Graph>
<Node>
....
</Node>
</Graph>
</Diagram>
This is not at all "normal" as it has arbitrary whitespace injected
into
the document at places where you may or may not expect.
It happens that XSLT offers implementers the option of supporting
indentation when the user requests indentation using:
<xsl:output indent="yes"/>
However ... there are no guidelines for the indentation and a
processor can
do whatever it wants when you ask. The processor is even allowed to
do
what you see already: start every element on a new line.
I counsel my students to only ever use indentation for diagnostics
and
never for production work because you have no idea what whitespace
is being
added to your document to achieve the indentation and you may
corrupt
downstream processes.
I hope this helps.
...................... Ken
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