Re: [docbook-apps] How useful is chunker.output.indent?

[Bob Stayton <bobs@sagehill.net>]

Hi Peter,
The quality of the indenting depends on the XSLT processor.  All that 
DocBook XSL is doing is passing along the setting to the processor.  The 
stylesheet does not perform any indenting.  What XSLT processor are you 
using?  Does another processor give different results?  HTML or XHTML?

The indent feature is supported along with all the other attributes of 
xsl:output for completeness, I believe.

The non-chunking stylesheet does not provide that option because its 
xsl:output element is hardwired in the stylesheet.  To change it, you 
would need to create a customization layer to import the stylesheet and 
add your own xsl:output element to override it.  However, if you use the 
onechunk.xsl stylesheet, you can generate a single output file and still 
use all the chunking parameters like chunker.output.indent.

--
Bob Stayton
Sagehill Enterprises
bobs@sagehill.net

On 12/5/2013 6:47 PM, Peter Eisentraut wrote:
> How useful is chunker.output.indent?  I noticed that it randomly indents
> contents of elements where whitespace matters, such as <pre> in HTML
> output.  That cannot possibly be useful except in the most trivial
> documents.  Also, the non-chunking stylesheet html/docbook.xsl doesn't
> even support turning on indent in xsl:output.  Is there any reason why
> the chunking stylesheet supports it?
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