Good stuff.
1. I'm going to make Krazy detect xmllint failures with svg files
2. How about adding normalize.sh to the kde-dev-scripts repo? (call it
svg-normalize.sh)
3. Is there a techbase wiki on this? if not, could you start one?
On Tuesday, September 06, 2016 11:58:57 AM Jos van den Oever wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> Icons in breeze are stored as uncompressed SVG. That should make diffs more
> readable. In practice, diffs can be quite hard to read due to different ways
> of
> writing out XML by different applications, application versions and settings.
>
> A solution to this is to use XML normalization (c14n). xmllint provides this.
>
> I've attached a script that will normalize XML files. I've used a similar
> script for quite some time.
>
> "$xmllint" --nonet --c14n11 "$1" \
> | XMLLINT_INDENT=' ' \
> "$xmllint" --nonet --format --encode utf-8 --xmlout --nsclean - \
> | "$perl" -p -e 's/[ \t]+$//g' - \
> > "$tmpfile" || "$rm" "$tmpfile"
>
> The script follows the c14n11 transform with a formatting. The formatting
> changes to and adds an initial .
>
> The most notable feature is that attributes are sorted and placed on one line.
>
> Like whitespace discussions, the actual choice is not that important, but for
> nice diffs, consistency is.
>
> There's a slight space saving (1MB out of 64MB).
>
> Cheers,
> Jos
