XOM API for Processing XML with Java

[Elliotte Rusty Harold <elharo AT metalab.unc.edu>]

At 2:55 PM -0500 4/28/03, Dick H wrote:


> If just the setIndent() is called on the Serializer, then the 
> problem occurs.  So you have identified when the problem can happen.

That's not a bug then. When you request indenting I feel entitled to 
change spaces to line breaks and line breaks to spaces as necessary. 
XOM won't do that unless you ask it to, but in this example you have 
so requested.

> However, one could certainly make an argument that the pretty 
> printing should be limited to the XML markup and not the content.

I don't think that's what most users want when indenting. More to the 
point, I think perhaps I should be using insignificant white space to 
pretty print as much as possible without changing the document's 
content. However, that's another discussion.
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Couldn't that be solved with a CDATA section?


xom-interest-bounces AT lists.ibiblio.org wrote on 04/28/2003 05:20:35 PM:

> At 2:55 PM -0500 4/28/03, Dick H wrote:
>
>
> >If just the setIndent() is called on the Serializer, then the 
> >problem occurs.  So you have identified when the problem can happen.
>
> That's not a bug then. When you request indenting I feel entitled to 
> change spaces to line breaks and line breaks to spaces as necessary. 
> XOM won't do that unless you ask it to, but in this example you have 
> so requested.
>
> >However, one could certainly make an argument that the pretty 
> >printing should be limited to the XML markup and not the content.
> >
>
> I don't think that's what most users want when indenting. More to the 
> point, I think perhaps I should be using insignificant white space to 
> pretty print as much as possible without changing the document's 
> content. However, that's another discussion.
> --
>
> +-----------------------+------------------------+-------------------+
> | Elliotte Rusty Harold | elharo AT metalab.unc.edu | Writer/Programmer |
> +-----------------------+------------------------+-------------------+
> |           Processing XML with Java (Addison-Wesley, 2002)          |
> |              http://www.cafeconleche.org/books/xmljava             |
> | http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ISBN%3D0201771861/cafeaulaitA  |
> +----------------------------------+---------------------------------+
> |  Read Cafe au Lait for Java News:  http://www.cafeaulait.org/      |
> |  Read Cafe con Leche for XML News: http://www.cafeconleche.org/    |
> +----------------------------------+---------------------------------+
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