RE: How to get comments to indent on their own line in

Alan, I think I explained that indent="yes" isn't going to give you this,
and I tried to explain why. So if you really need it to be like this, you
are going to have to create the newlines "by hand".

Michael Kay
http://www.saxonica.com/


> -----Original Message-----
> From: alan.painter@xxxxxxx [mailto:alan.painter@xxxxxxx]
> Sent: 06 July 2008 08:33
> To: xsl-list
> Subject: Re:  How to get comments to indent on their own
> line in XML output?
>
>
> Here's an example of what I'm trying to do.  (Shoulda posted
> this originally, sorry.)
>
> <xsl:stylesheet
> xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform"
> version="2.0" >
> <xsl:output indent="yes" encoding="UTF-8" method="xml" />
>
> <xsl:template match="/" name="main" >
>
> <root rootAttribute="example">
> <xsl:comment select="'Here is my comment.'" /> <property
> example1="example1" /> <property example2="example2" /> </root>
>
> </xsl:template>
>
> </xsl:stylesheet>
>
> I'd like this to produce:
>
> <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
> <root rootAttribute="example">
> <!--Here is my comment.-->
> <property example1="example1"/>
> <property example2="example2"/>
> </root>
>
> but instead I get serialized indented output with the "root"
> and first "property" elements appearing, with the comment
> between them, all on the same line, like this.
>
> <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
> <root rootAttribute="example"><!--Here is my
> comment.--><property example1="example1"/> <property
> example2="example2"/> </root>
>
> I'm trying to get some folks to adopt XSLT for generating
> human-readable configuration files for another application
> and the comments tend to be important.
>
> thanks again
>
> -alan
>
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Michael Kay" [mike@xxxxxxxxxxxx]
> Sent: 04/07/2008 23:10 CET
> To: <xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Subject: RE:  How to get comments to indent on their own
> line in XML output?
>
>
>
>
> The serialization spec (for 2.0) says that when indenting,
> whitespace may be added only immediately before an (element)
> start tag or immediately after an end tag. This means it
> can't be inserted between a comment and a text node.
> Although there's no such rule in XSLT 1.0, the logic is the
> same; it's generally unsafe. For example:
>
> <date-of-birth>1832-01<!--I think it's a 1 but it might be a
> 7-->-05</date-of-birth>
>
> If you add whitespace around the comment, the document
> becomes invalid against the schema.
>
> One could do better in some cases, for example for a comment
> that immediately follows an end tag (or is separated from it
> only by whitespace); but in the end, you have to decide how
> much effort to put into fine-tuning the algorithm.
>
> Michael Kay
> http://www.saxonica.com/
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: alan.painter@xxxxxxx [mailto:alan.painter@xxxxxxx]
> > Sent: 04 July 2008 19:20
> > To: xsl-list
> > Subject:  How to get comments to indent on their own
> line in XML
> > output?
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > Hi,
> >
> > I'm producing some XML output with indented="yes" and the indenting
> > works great excelpt for the comment nodes, which push the following
> > elements to the end of the comment line.
> >
> > I would have expected a comment to occupy its own line starting at
> > current indentation level, with the following element on
> next line at
> > same indentation.
> >
> > I've tried a few naove attempts at adding text nodes with newlines
> > after comments, but no dice.
> >
> > Any suggestions for this?
> >
> > Thanks
> >
> > -alan
> >
> >
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