- From: Tim Green <tcg@TrainsCan.com>
- Date: Thu, 20 Dec 2001 13:57:29 -0700
- To: html-tidy@w3.org
I must be missing something! tidy comes so close to doing what I want... Situation. I'm trying to use tidy to pretty-print xml code which I eventually turn into XHTML. The code contains a lot of standard (X)HTML tags. However tidy throws a newline before and two newlines after every set of tags I consider to be inline. Here's a simplified example: before tidy-ing >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>: <xml> <para> <sentence>Mary had a <strong>little</strong> lamb whose fleece was white as snow.</sentence> </para> </xml> after tidy-ing >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>: <xml> <para> <sentence>Mary had a <strong>little</strong> lamb whose fleece was white as snow.</sentence> </para> </xml> What I want, but not getting out of tidy >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>: <xml> <para> <sentence>Mary had a <strong>little</strong> lamb whose fleece was white as snow.</sentence> </para> </xml> I would rather that everything between <sentence> and </sentence> stay together, not with the <strong>...</strong> on a separate line, and certainly not followed by a blank line. "Aha!" I thought, that's what the "new-inline-tags" parameter is all about. But nothing I put in new-blocklevel-tags or new-inline-tags seems to make any difference. Here's my config file: wrap:100 indent: auto indent-spaces: 4 input-xml: yes output-xml: yes write-back: yes new-inline-tags: strong, em new-blocklevel-tags: para, sentence force-output: yes I get the same behaviour from several different versions of tidy, the latest being HTML tidy for windows built Sep 15 2001. I've read all the documentation I can find, including http://www.w3.org/People/Raggett/tidy/ and http://tidy.sourceforge.net/ So: * am I missing something or is there something I don't understand about tidy to get this to work? [What's "new-inline-tags" about if not to control this?] * or am I trying to hammer in a nail with a pair of pliers? [Is there something that works better on straight XML / XHTML input?] Thanks for any illumination on this...! ###### |\^/| Timothy C. Green, CD, PEng, MEng ###### _|\| |/|_ tcg@TrainsCan.com ###### > < TrainsCan, RailWeb ###### >_./|\._< http://www.TrainsCan.com
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