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Curtis,
On 10/16/2009 11:50 AM, Curtis Garman wrote:
> Hmm...Christopher, thanks for the post...that's good info...as long as
> I know a little more about it, I'm ok with turning it off...my
> understanding was that it's purpose was to just remove empty lines
> (that result from include directives and such) from the
> response...
Yeah, and also especially if you have loops of stuff, you can generate
tons of (useless) whitespace easily. Imagine:
<jstl:loop> (or whatever, I don't use JSP)
<jstl:if test="whatever">
<jstl:choose>
<jstl:when test="whatever">
(print stuff)
</jstl:when>
</jstl:choose>
</jstl:if>
</jstl:loop>
If you don't trim spaces, every line of that loop generates somewhere
between 5 and 12 leading space characters. If you looked at the output
of your JSP, you'd see that there are tons of extra spaces in there.
Obviously, you could just edit these out in your text editor, but then
the text would be unreadable for developers and designers, so it's
better to leave it in there.
> which is my main reason for wanting it turned on in the first place.
Yup: it's a good feature, but poorly implemented (apparently due to what
I believe is a poor specification).
- -chris
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