Re: Test case document formatting request

Thomas,

Thomas Roessler wrote:
> On 2008-01-07 11:00:16 -0500, Frederick Hirsch wrote:
> 
>> This is essentially illegible to read, requires horizontal scrolling in 
>> browser and will not print properly.
> 
> I agree.
> 
>> (1) is there a tool or technique to process the XInclude so that the content 
>> included is pretty-printed upon inclusion so it flows properly?
> 
>> (2) would it make sense to add spaces to the examples?
> 
> I don't think we'd really want to have pretty-printing of the XML,
> as that would create a result that is materially different from the
> *real* canonical XML.  There seem to be some style sheet tricks
> which are probably not portable.
> 
> The best idea I can come up with (though I don't like it) is to do
> some perl or sed based postprocessing on the xhtml output.  I'll
> commit something later tonight.

I just updated my CVS workspace and noticed there is a Makefile that 
builds the html and does the post-processing now. But the ant build file 
doesn't have the same changes. Does this mean we should no longer use 
ant to build the doc or did you plan to also add them to build.xml? If 
not, I can try to add them.

--Sean

Received on Wednesday, 9 January 2008 20:34:14 UTC