From: Robert Klemme <shortcutter@...>
Date: 2010-08-02T04:06:52+09:00
Subject: Re: REXML - controlling whitespaces and inserting CR

2010/8/1 Charles Wel <charlemagne@welnowiec.net>:
> Hello All,
>
> I have an XML file containing this
> <properties>
>    <property key="ABC">
>        <value xml:lang="de">Description de</value>
>        <value xml:lang="en">Description en</value>
>    </property>
>    <property key="XYZ">
>        <value xml:lang="de">Description de</value>
>        <value xml:lang="en">Description en</value>
>    </property>
> </properties>
>
> I made a code to add a new <value> tag to each <property>.
> The part of code is:
>
> require "rexml/document"
> include REXML
> ...
> ...
>      pval = Element.new("value")
>      pval.add_attribute("xml:lang","fr")
>      pval.add_text("Description fr")
>      fproperty.elements << pval
> fproperty is the node object
>
> My final XML file looks like this:
>
> <properties>
>  <property key="ABC">
>    <value xml:lang="de">Description de</value>
>    <value xml:lang="en">Description en</value>
>    <value xml:lang="fr">Description fr</value></property>
>  <property key="XYZ">
>    <value xml:lang="de">Description de</value>
>    <value xml:lang="en">Description en</value>
>    <value xml:lang="fr">Description fr</value></property>
> </properties>
>
> One "TAB" is inserted for each 4 spaces which were in the original file.
> How to avoid this?
> And how to add a CR to the new element?
>
> Thanks for your help, I'm a very newby

I think, you will have to create your own formatter - or use a
different one for output.  You'll find some explanation in the REXML
documentation.

Kind regards

robert


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