From: Dossy <dossy@...>
Date: 2002-05-16T04:15:02+09:00
Subject: Re: ANN: REXML 2.3.3

On 2002.05.16, Sean O'Dell <sean@BUHBYESPAMcelsoft.com> wrote:
> I've done pretty printing for XML, and my rule was always: use indents 
> and add newlines unless the element has no children, then strip off 
> surrounding whitespace and just indent.

I mentioned this to Sean (not you, Sean, the other Sean, the
one that maintains REXML) that the pretty-printer should not
touch tags with the xml:space="preserved" attribute set.

I wonder how many people actually use that attribute, and
preserve it.

-- Dossy

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