[seam-dev] formatting the reference doc source

[Lincoln Baxter, III]

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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> >
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>


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