[seam-dev] formatting the reference doc source

[Dan Allen]

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) :-)
>
>
Pete perfectly summarizes the the hindrance I've forever faced with XML
editing.

At least in VIM you can format a single block of text within XML tags using
gQ{ though it's still tricky.

-Dan

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