From: Robert Klemme <shortcutter@...>
Date: 2009-09-15T18:45:54+09:00
Subject: Re: Formatting REXML

2009/9/15 Charles Roper <reachme@charlesroper.co.uk>:
> On 15/09/2009 08:55, Robert Klemme wrote:
>>
>>
>> http://www.germane-software.com/software/XML/rexml/doc/classes/REXML/Formatters.html
>>
>> robert
>
> Hi Robert, thanks for the link. I have already spent quite some time looking
> over these formatters and I just can't seem to get the formatting I want.
> It's probably me being stupid, but I can't see how to get the result I want.
>
> I want the last 3 lines to look like this:
>
>  <key>gutter</key>
>  <string>#282828</string>
> </dict>
>
> But I can only get this:
>
> <key>gutter</key><string>#282828</string></dict>
>
> or this:
>
>  <key>
>    gutter
>  </key>
>  <string>
>    #282828
>  </string>
> </dict>

Bte, your XML is invalid.  The opening tag is missing.

And, apparently you did not read the docs properly:

irb(main):143:0> d = REXML::Document.new
"<dict><key>gutter</key><string>#282828</string></dict>"
=> <UNDEFINED> ... </>
irb(main):144:0> f=REXML::Formatters::Pretty.new
=> #<REXML::Formatters::Pretty:0x1037b030 @indentation=2, @level=0,
@ie_hack=false, @width=80, @compact=false>
irb(main):145:0> f.compact=true
=> true
irb(main):146:0> puts f.write(d.root,"")
<dict>
  <key>gutter</key>
  <string>#282828</string>
</dict>
=> nil
irb(main):147:0>

Cheers

robert

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