- From: Bjoern Hoehrmann <derhoermi@gmx.net>
- Date: Sat, 12 Oct 2002 04:05:15 +0200
- To: Fred.Bone@dial.pipex.com
- Cc: html-tidy@w3.org
* Fred Bone wrote: >> My problem is that tidy breaks lines between elements, like this : >> <elem1><elem2>Content of elem2 >> is changed to >> <elem1> >> <elem2>Content of elem2 >> >> The result is far easier to read, but... >> the content of the document has been _changed_ : the newline between >> <elem1> and <elem2> has been added. > >I'm no expert on XML, but as far as I can tell this would only be a >change of content if you have elem1 defined with >xml:space='preserve', and then only the blanks would be significant >(and not the newline). No, Jany is right here, in XML by default all white space is significant and as she points out, Tidy changes white space in the document. I remember some feature requests regarding XML pretty printing and bug reports on XML vs. Tidy's treatment of white space. I am not sure how useful Tidy is for generic XML pretty printing...
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