Hi Willem,
Not sure if this would work with the particular VCS you are using,
but have you considered not to use a formatter when adding the XSLT to the VCS,
but tune the actual dif (ignoring whitespace in attributes as an example)
Delta XML have done some work in that area for GIT I believe, maybe you find
some inspiration here
[ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YmfzhK4aR1c |
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YmfzhK4aR1c ]
Met vriendelijke groeten,
Best regards,
Geert Bormans
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Verzonden: Dinsdag 28 juli 2020 23:18:00
Onderwerp: [xsl] Source code formatting
Hi list,
Like many of you, I assume, I use a version control system when working on XSLT
projects. I'm working together with multiple people, and we run the code
through an XML formatter before checking it in to avoid formatting differences
showing up in the diffs.
The problem is that, due to attribute value normalization, carriage returns are
removed from attribute nodes during XML parsing. When using long XPath
expressions (and this has become very common in XSLT 3, especially with higher
order functions), which are split in multiple lines, this results in huge
single line outputs which are impossible to read.
It seems any sort of XML processing will irreversibly transform the whitespace,
therefore I have to choose between:
- No formatting
- Formatting using non-XML tools?
- Finding a parser that bends the rules...
Have any of you experienced the same problem and did you find a solution?
Thanks.
Willem Van Lishout
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