From: Michael Fellinger <m.fellinger@...>
Date: 2007-12-12T11:32:52+09:00
Subject: Re: REXml help - Insert newlines into large xml file

On Dec 11, 2007 10:50 PM, Jari Williamsson
<jari.williamsson@mailbox.swipnet.se> wrote:
> Michael Fellinger wrote:
>
> > 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.
>  > []
> >
> > REXML::VERSION
> > # "3.1.6"
>
> Don'tunderstand what you mean by "new REXML", since you seem to be using
> an old one. I'm on 3.1.7.1, and here you do, for example:

By new i mean 3.1.7 - which has formatters. But the one that ships
with ruby is still 3.1.6 - if i require a dependency then i can just
use tidy instead, no?

> formatter = REXML::Formatters::Pretty.new( 3 )
> formatter.compact = true
> formatter.write( doc, $stdout)