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Re: pretty-printing XML

Subject: Re: pretty-printing XML
From: "Randy Oxentenko" <randy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 26 Mar 2003 12:36:49 -0600
emacs pretty print xml
I like the way this stylesheet works under Saxon.  It doesn't do much for me
with other XSL processors such as Xalan and msxsl, though.  I don't know
what it would do with your XML comments.  I suspect this may fall into your
long list of stylesheets that don't do the job.  It has the one advantage of
being simple.

<xsl:stylesheet xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform"
version="1.0">
<xsl:output encoding="UTF-8" indent="yes"/>
<xsl:strip-space elements="*"/>
<xsl:template match="*">
   <xsl:copy-of select="."/>
</xsl:template>
</xsl:stylesheet>

Randy Oxentenko

----- Original Message -----
From: "Lars Huttar" <lars_huttar@xxxxxxx>
To: "XSL-List (E-mail)" <XSL-List@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Wednesday, March 26, 2003 12:06 PM
Subject:  pretty-printing XML


> Dear XSL users,
> I'm looking for a way to nicely print out my XML data.
> I've looked at a few XSL stylesheets that claim to pretty-print XML,
> but they don't seem to do what I want.  In particular, my XML has
> lots of very long comment lines, which I would like to be wrapped
> to a sensible line length, and indented with a hanging indent like this:
>
>   <!-- blah blah
>     blah blah
>     blah blah -->
>
> I've tried using Emacs XML modes to wrap them using sgml-fill-element;
> I've tried the Physiome Languages XML Pretty Printer, the DecisionSoft
> online pretty printer, and others.
> The latter indents comments well but starts them all at the left margin,
> no matter how deeply they're nested.  It also breaks the line whenever
> the comment mentions an <element> and goes back to the left margin.
> The former doesn't seem to indent elements based on their nesting depth.
> Mark Brown and Jeni Tennison's XML tree pretty printer is useful, but
> displays the tree rather than the XML text itself.
> "Tidy" doesn't seem to wrap long lines when it should.
>
> What I have had success with is using XMLSpy to print the XML, which
> puts it in sort of a table view.  However my trial period for XMLSpy
> has expired.  I've decided I'm willing to purchase it, if only for
> printing, but I thought I'd ask you folks first.
>
> What do you use for printing out your XML data, so you can look at it
> offline?  A stylesheet?  Other free software?
>
> Thanks,
> Lars
>
>
>  XSL-List info and archive:  http://www.mulberrytech.com/xsl/xsl-list
>
>


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