Hi, Roger, Joel,
One more thing in addition to this, the xml:space attribute does not
need to be specified directly in the XML, it can be defined as an
attribute with a default value in the associated schema/DTD.
For example a codeblock defined in the DITA DTD:
<!ENTITY % codeblock.attributes
"%display-atts;
spectitle
CDATA
#IMPLIED
xml:space
(preserve)
#FIXED
'preserve'
More about this in the user's guide:
https://www.oxygenxml.com/doc/versions/24.1/ug-editor/topics/format-and-indent-xml.html#format-and-indent-xml__dlentry_jgw_bgk_54b
Regards,
Radu
Radu Coravu
Oxygen XML Editor
On 5/13/22 21:55, Joel Kalvesmaki wrote:
Hi Roger,
For such elements, try adding @xml:space="preserve". Oxygen will
preserve those elements, and anyone you share your files with will
understand that the space is meaningful.
Best wishes,
jk
On 2022-05-13 08:13, Roger L Costello wrote:
Hi Folks,
I love the "Format and Indent" button in Oxygen.
But it has a gotcha!
It replaces multiple spaces in your data with a single space. For
example, in my XML document it changed this:
<TRM_IDENT>GBE6 BELGRANO 6</TRM_IDENT>
to this:
<TRM_IDENT>GBE6 BELGRANO 6</TRM_IDENT>
See the change in the data?
GBE6 BELGRANO 6
GBE6 BELGRANO 6
Now you might think, "Well, what's the big deal? Why does it matter
that Oxygen discarded a few spaces?"
Actually, it is a huge deal!
In my use case, I have a program which checks that the TRM_IDENT value
matches every TRM_IDENT value in another XML file that had not been
formatted by Oxygen. My program kept returning an error saying that
the values don't match. It took me many hours to find the problem:
Oxygen changed the data in the first file.
I did some research and found that Oxygen has a way to specify that
space is to be preserved during a format and indent operation:
Preferences/Editor/Format/XML click on "Preserve text as it is".
If you're using Oxygen, I recommend that you open it up right now and
click on that option. If you don't, then one day you might run into
the same situation and waste many hours trying to figure out why
things aren't working.
/Roger
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