On Mon, Jan 18, 2021 at 5:46 PM Mark Prins <[email protected]> wrote:

> As far as I can tell the document is parsed using jdom/sax and then
> serialized again, so whitespace without any semantic meaning is removed
>
>
> https://github.com/acegi/xml-format-maven-plugin/blob/6a50b3243bff5ec602fea4c7fd6021a93e573500/src/main/java/au/com/acegi/xmlformat/FormatUtil.java#L55-L84
>
> basically the options are limited to:
> https://dom4j.github.io/javadoc/2.1.3/org/dom4j/io/OutputFormat.html


Yep... if we wanted some "space" preservation, we'd have to use XML comments
(those are preserved AFAIK).


> Alternatively https://code.revelc.net/formatter-maven-plugin/ could be
> an option, it requires an Eclipse formatting profile and could much more
> that format/check xml files
>

Yeah, it's an option too, and I see it's still being released. It could be
used to
format XML but also json, html and css files.... and java too, with more
flexibility
in choosing formatting options.

Dunno, we try it out just XML and, if we like it, consider using it for
more at a later
stage.

Cheers
Andrea

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