Re: indent XML doc based on spaces?

Hi Joshua,

I didn't check your algorithm, but here is a stylesheet I use to display
colour-coded and indented XML, in case it provides useful ideas.

Having set the FONT to Courier, it achieves the indenting at each level with
this HTML technique:
<DIV STYLE="margin-left:1em;">

This version uses the obsolete IE5 XSL namespace.

If this is useful, I can't claim the credit - I didn't write this stylesheet...

Anyway, here's the code:

<?xml version="1.0"?>

<!-- Generic stylesheet for viewing XML -->
<xsl:stylesheet xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/TR/WD-xsl">
  <!-- This template will always be executed, even if this stylesheet is not run
 on the document root -->
  <xsl:template>
    <DIV STYLE="font-family:Courier; font-size:10pt; margin-bottom:2em">
      <!-- Scoped templates are used so they don't interfere with the "kick-off"
 template. -->
      <xsl:apply-templates select=".">
        <xsl:template><xsl:apply-templates/></xsl:template>

        <xsl:template match="*">
          <DIV STYLE="margin-left:1em; color:gray">
            &lt;<xsl:node-name/><xsl:apply-templates select="@*"/>/&gt;
          </DIV>
        </xsl:template>

        <xsl:template match="*[node()]">
          <DIV STYLE="margin-left:1em">
            <SPAN STYLE="color:gray">&lt;<xsl:node-name/><xsl:apply-templates
select="@*"/>&gt;</SPAN><xsl:apply-templates select="node()"/><SPAN
STYLE="color:gray">&lt;/<xsl:node-name/>&gt;</SPAN>
          </DIV>
        </xsl:template>

        <xsl:template match="@*">
          <SPAN STYLE="color:navy"> <xsl:node-name/>="<SPAN
STYLE="color:black"><xsl:value-of /></SPAN>"</SPAN>
        </xsl:template>

        <xsl:template match="pi()">
          <DIV STYLE="margin-left:1em;
color:maroon">&lt;?<xsl:node-name/><xsl:apply-templates select="@*"/>?&gt;</DIV>
        </xsl:template>

        <xsl:template match="cdata()"><pre>&lt;![CDATA[<xsl:value-of
/>]]&gt;</pre></xsl:template>

        <xsl:template match="textNode()"><xsl:value-of /></xsl:template>
      </xsl:apply-templates>
    </DIV>
  </xsl:template>
</xsl:stylesheet>


Thanks,
Martin



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