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Subject: RE: DOCBOOK: Strange newlines in HTML output

From: Gregory Leblanc <GLeblanc@cu-portland.edu>
To: docbook@lists.oasis-open.org
Date: Mon, 04 Dec 2000 11:06:51 -0800

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Norman Walsh [mailto:ndw@nwalsh.com]
> 
> / siaco@id.pl was heard to say:
> | <HTML
> | ><HEAD
> | ><TITLE
> | ></TITLE
> | ><META
> | NAME="GENERATOR"
> | 
> | Yes, I mean the newlines before the '>' sign. 
> 
> Jade wants to insert line breaks into the output so that you don't get
> one great, big, huge, unbroken line of tags. But where can it put line
> breaks? The only place where they can occur where Jade can be certain
> that they aren't significant is inside the tags. So that's what it
> does.

Well since Norm answered this one here, I thought I'd throw in my 2 cents.
After I get the output from Jade, I -always- run it through tidy  with a -i
(intent) option.  That way if somebody actually looks at the HTML, it's
pretty clear how things work.
	Greg