On Monday August 29 2005 6:33 pm, Diwaker Gupta wrote: > > So do we all want to work with the same editor for cleaning or do we > > want to use a cleaning tool and give up our blank lines in XML files? > > Many of us are sensitive to our development environments (atleast I > am!), and forcing a particular choice of editor would not be a good > idea IMHO :-)
Yes, I agree. I actually didn't get to fully think out and write what I wanted to say because I realised I was late for my train so I just signed and hit send. :p > > The reason I don't want to use any IDE for this cleanup task, and > instead a tool like Tidy, is that things can be automated much more > easily. We can schedule clean-ups periodically, add targets to the > build process to do it automatically -- there's a lot of flexibility > in how we go about it. > > Using an XSL transform for cleanup is attractive because we don't need > any external utility; Forrest is all about XML processing anyywas :-) > > So I'm +1 on either Tidy or XSL (personally, I prefer Tidy since in my > experience its much smarter and faster). -0 on jEdit plugins and such. I would say that I am +1 on XSL, +0 on Tidy and -0 on any IDE/editor. I am doing more research to see if I can come up with a solution that leaves the blank lines in. Turns out that Tidy has a config option vertical-spacing, but that puts a blank line after every element closing tag so it ends up looking pretty weird and adding lots of lines we wouldn't want. You can try it out by adding "vertical-spacing=yes" to your config.txt file. I am mainly not so keen on tidy at the moment because I am having trouble with it not wanting to process due to errors that need to be resolved and it is giving me a headache to figure out what the hell it wants from me, whereas the XSL just works and stays "native" to Forrest, as it were. I wish there was a way in the xsl to preserve-space a blank line. Any xml experts out there have any ideas? I don't know diddly about xsl. Here is the basic XSL for cleanup: <?xml version="1.0"?> <xsl:stylesheet xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform"; xmlns:xalan="http://xml.apache.org/xalan"; version="1.0"> <xsl:output method="xml" indent="yes" xalan:indent-amount="2"/> <xsl:strip-space elements="*"/> <xsl:template match="/"> <xsl:copy-of select="."/> </xsl:template> </xsl:stylesheet> - Addi
