[seam-dev] formatting the reference doc source

[Jordan Ganoff]

We could craft an XSL to format them although that seems like squashing a
bug with a huge hammer.

On Fri, Apr 16, 2010 at 2:00 PM, Lincoln Baxter, III <
lincolnbaxter at gmail.com> wrote:

> Does JBoss tools have this same XML formatting problem? If so, maybe we
> could get them to invest a little time in enhancing it for us if we can
> enumerate the deficiencies?
>
> --LB
>
>
> On Fri, Apr 16, 2010 at 5:35 AM, Pete Muir <pmuir at redhat.com> wrote:
>
>> The trouble is the XML formatter in eclipse has very little
>> customizability (spaces vs tabs, gutter are the only ones I've found that
>> are useful) (and none on a per-project level) and certainly can't be told
>> NOT to put all elements on a new line. So if we use it, it ends up looking
>> so nasty that we should just invest the time to make it look ok.
>>
>> There are some better XML editors out there for sure which *can* apply ok
>> formatting (but never found a great one as Dan says).
>>
>> So, here's a challenge for readers: find a formatting template that will
>> take a file which has been (lovingly) hand formatted, like
>> https://svn.jboss.org/repos/weld/doc/trunk/reference/en-US/ri-spi.xml and
>> not screw it all up (there might be a couple of errors in there) :-)
>>
>> On 16 Apr 2010, at 04:31, Lincoln Baxter, III wrote:
>>
>> > Perhaps we can agree on an Eclipse autoformat style to use, just to make
>> things slightly easier to make consistent?
>> >
>> > On Thu, Apr 15, 2010 at 12:55 PM, Pete Muir <pmuir at redhat.com> wrote:
>> >
>> > On 15 Apr 2010, at 17:49, Dan Allen wrote:
>> >
>> > > On Thu, Apr 15, 2010 at 12:38 PM, Pete Muir <pmuir at redhat.com> wrote:
>> > > The easiest option I know is just to use the Eclipse XML editor and
>> never use the autoformat feature.
>> > >
>> > > Right, but if you turn off the autoformat feature, then who is
>> responsible for the wrapping? Do you have to hit return when the sentence
>> reaches the right margin line
>> >
>> > yes.
>> >
>> > > and then space, space, space to get it to line up again?
>> >
>> > no, it can do that automatically :-)
>> >
>> > > I'm trying to find a way where you don't have to think. You can just
>> type and it only formats what is necessary. If that's how it works, then I
>> need to give it another chance.
>> >
>> > I never found a plugin for eclipse to do this. I don't want to move
>> outside my IDE to edit these files.
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