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Okay I see, What I'm doing is converting old text documents into XML. I feel like the string length and position of the text is important given there are tables represented in the text, section titles, subsection titles, lists, footnotes, paragraphs,, new pages... The length of a line, how much text follows one line to the next, blank lines, the space between table columns will all be relevant for determining what is what in the document and surrounding content with xml tags. I'll be using regex and analyze string for the majority of the process so it may be that white space in general is all I need to match on however it seemed that line length and position of text will be relevant and so wanted to have every tab expanded to have the same number of space so that counts are accurate,,, perhaps the logic would have been easier for some aspects with expanded tabs. Will see Regards Alex On Mon, Mar 29, 2010 at 10:58 PM, Michael Kay <mike@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> >> I did come across something of interest when searching for >> xsl expand tabs... in the XSL Working Draft 16-December-1998: >> http://www.w3.org/TR/1998/WD-xsl-19981216#expand-tabs >> > > That's in the part of the spec that became XSL Formatting objects. > > This all raises the question of what you are trying to achieve. Generally, > if your final output is HTML or XSL-FO, then replacing tabs by spaces isn't > a very useful thing to do. It's not likely to be useful for most XML > vocabularies either. I'm not sure it's all that useful even if you are > producing old-fashioned ASCII text in a fixed-width font (like this email), > unless whoever typed the text knows the old UNIX rules and used a text > editor that respects them. > > Regards, > > Michael Kay > http://www.saxonica.com/ > http://twitter.com/michaelhkay > > -- Alex https://sites.google.com/a/utg.edu.gm/alex Some Good Music http://sites.google.com/site/greigconteh/
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