From: Michael Fellinger <m.fellinger@...>
Date: 2007-12-11T21:49:48+09:00
Subject: Re: REXml help - Insert newlines into large xml file

On Dec 11, 2007 1:50 PM, Phrogz <phrogz@mac.com> wrote:
> On Dec 10, 8:35 pm, Michael Fellinger <m.fellin...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > On Dec 11, 2007 10:54 AM, Sean Nakasone <seannakas...@yahoo.com> wrote:
> >
> > > Hello, I have a large xml file that does not have any newlines in it.  Can
> > > someone please provide some code to use REXML to simply read in an xml,
> > > insert newlines after the xml sections or elements, then spit it out to
> > > stdout.  This way I'd at least be able to open the xml file in an editor
> > > so I can read what kind of format it has.  I don't know anything about
> > > REXML so it needs to be a somewhat complete script.  thank you.
> >
> > Step 1) Install tidy
> > Step 2) tidy -i yourfile.xml
> > Step 3) tidy --help
> >
> > REXML is very bad for handling such things.
>
> For the record, would you care to clarify and justify that statement?

Sure, i've tried for quite some time to get REXML to a point where it
really pretty-prints any document, but apart from implementing a whole
streamlistener that keeps track of indentation and width there doesn't
seem to be any. The new REXML works a bit better but inserts lots of
whitespace at the wrong places.
Unfortunately tidy has a memory-leak, so i cannot recommend the
bindings if your process is running over a longer period. Of course
you could start it in another process, but then the CLI tool is good
enough already.

REXML::VERSION
# "3.1.6"

http://pastie.caboo.se/126905

^ manveru