Hi Jochen,
On 15 Mar 2016, at 12:20, Jochen Wiedmann wrote:
On Tue, Mar 15, 2016 at 8:14 PM, Michael Blow <[email protected]>
wrote:
Currently XML files in asterixdb (including hyracks) have a wide
variety of
indentation schemes being used, often times within a single file,
which
makes maintenance quite painful.
Please let me know your thoughts / opinions.
My opinion (out of experience): *Never* bother with syntax, when XML
is the topic. XML is about semantics, not syntax. Trying ti achieve a
particular syntax will never work.
If we’d all use tools that represent the XML structure and if git
would
provide a tree diff for XML, I think that I might agree with you.
However, my current reality is that I use a text editor to edit XML
files and git’s diff is line oriented.
So I think that consistent indentation of XML is helpful. And since XML
processors don’t care about non-significant whitespace it also
doesn’t
hurt them.
I’m in favor of a common indentation scheme.
Cheers,
Till
