<div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Apr 16, 2010 at 5:35 AM, Pete Muir <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:pmuir@redhat.com">pmuir@redhat.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
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.<br>
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There are some better XML editors out there for sure which *can* apply ok formatting (but never found a great one as Dan says).<br>
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So, here's a challenge for readers: find a formatting template that will take a file which has been (lovingly) hand formatted, like <a href="https://svn.jboss.org/repos/weld/doc/trunk/reference/en-US/ri-spi.xml" target="_blank">https://svn.jboss.org/repos/weld/doc/trunk/reference/en-US/ri-spi.xml</a> and not screw it all up (there might be a couple of errors in there) :-)<br>
<div><div></div><div class="h5"><br></div></div></blockquote><div> </div><div>Pete perfectly summarizes the the hindrance I've forever faced with XML editing.</div><div><br></div><div>At least in VIM you can format a single block of text within XML tags using <font class="Apple-style-span" face="'courier new', monospace">gQ{</font> though it's still tricky.</div>
<div><br></div><div>-Dan</div><div> </div></div>-- <br>Dan Allen<br>Senior Software Engineer, Red Hat | Author of Seam in Action<br>Registered Linux User #231597<br><br><a href="http://mojavelinux.com">http://mojavelinux.com</a><br>
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