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Tidy.exe - Keep space at the end of tag
Posted: 09 Nov 2017 09:06
by lolo
Hello,
I would like to know if there is an option that tell to Tidy to keep space at the end of a tag when it beautify aXML.
For example:
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<?xml version="1.0"?>
<Test>String with space at the end </Test>
becomes (space after end has been deleted)
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<?xml version="1.0"?>
<Test>String with space at the end</Test>
Thanks in advance and have a nice day.
Re: Tidy.exe - Keep space at the end of tag
Posted: 09 Nov 2017 10:26
by pjj
I can't really imagine why one would want to keep trailing whitespace in between tags, but that's
my problem, isn't it?
Anyway, a cursory look on
Tidy's plethora of options indicates there's no such one that would do what you want; perhaps you'd like to add your use case to
the list of Tidy's issues at Github?
Btw Rickard, you may want to use
newer version of Tidy (5.4.0 instead of 5.2.0) with the next RJ TE release.
Re: Tidy.exe - Keep space at the end of tag
Posted: 09 Nov 2017 11:25
by lolo
Hi pjj,
Thanks for your answer.
I need this behavior because I have to generate and send XML to a web service.
This web service use a "special" tag to get information about an order and this tag has 70 characters maximum
For example you can have :
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<?xml version="1.0"?>
<FreeText1>This is a comment on se</FreeText1>
<FreeText2>veral lines </FreeText2>
<FreeText3>for my example</FreeText3>
As you can see, if the truncate is done just after a space, I need to keep it intact in my XML tag.
Tidy default behavior is strange because it alter the original xml content.
Others online XML beautifier or event XML Tools plugin on Notepad++ does not have this behavior.
So, it does not matter. I really love RJ TextED!
Re: Tidy.exe - Keep space at the end of tag
Posted: 09 Nov 2017 12:10
by pjj
I see. Here
https://stackoverflow.com/a/15167134 I have found a hackish solution:
Put <pre> around the xml you want to validate (this instructs Tidy not to change the whitespace), then repair the xml with output-html set to true, then remove the <pre> and \n newlines.
Perhaps that helps.
Edit:
Even when specifications may be unclear on the matter, XML culture, conventions, product features, programming habits, and general best practices are allied not only to collapse but to trim whitespace from elements that contain only text.
https://wiki.tei-c.org/index.php/XML_Wh ... y_Elements