Re: [docbook] xml:space or not

[Jirka Kosek <jirka@kosek.cz>]

gregor FELLENZ wrote:

> i agree that unintended white space would represented. but i want to avoid 
> unintended whitespace. i.e. a tool with indentation function does produce bad 
> renderign results. my example, to be correct: the slightly changed example 
> does not work with xsl-fo either:
> 
> this line:
> <para><emphasis>em1 </emphasis><emphasis>em2</emphasis></para>
> 
> indentation with spy, oxygen (or xslt indent="yes") results in:
> <para>
>   <emphasis>em1 </emphasis>
>   <emphasis>em2</emphasis>
> </para>

In general, it is not good idea to indent elements with mixed content.

On oXygen you can control identing and whitespace preservation on
element basis in Options -> Editor -> Format -> XML.

			Jirka

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