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Re: XML Pretty Printer
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- Subject: Re: XML Pretty Printer
- From: Oliver Becker <obecker at informatik dot hu-berlin dot de>
- Date: Tue, 4 Jul 2000 13:54:32 +0200 (MET DST)
- Reply-To: xsl-list at mulberrytech dot com
> Does anyone know of a good XML pretty-printer/reformatter? I'm getting
> increasingly fed up with having to manually indent everything!
It's not Tidy, it's XSLT :-)
Take a copy stylesheet with indent="yes".
<xsl:stylesheet version="1.0"
xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform">
<xsl:output method="xml" indent="yes" /> <!-- here's the trick -->
<xsl:template match="*">
<xsl:copy>
<xsl:copy-of select="@*" />
<xsl:apply-templates />
</xsl:copy>
</xsl:template>
<xsl:template match="comment()|processing-instruction()">
<xsl:copy />
</xsl:template>
</xsl:stylesheet>
Saxon, LotusXSL and Oracle do the job quite well.
XT doesn't indent.
A problem could be the handling of text nodes with Saxon.
Regards,
Oliver
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