Jason Johnston skrev:
Daniel Fagerstrom wrote:
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There are lots of comments from users (mainly using jx-macros for
cforms) that whitespace is problematic. So I think it's worthwhile.
Maybe the whitespace handling for macros need an overlook then, what
exactly is the whitespace problem with jx-macros?
http://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/COCOON-1381
I'm aware of that bug, I was asking for more details, which maybe wasn't
that clear. Where does the unwanted whitespace show up, and why is that
happen?
Anyway, IIRC, the jx:import basically includes the whole document with
macro definitions, whitespace between macros, and XML elements, that are
between the macro definitions. While such a construction certainly can
be useful, it is not the most natural for importing macros, and it would
have been better to name it jx:include.
What we need IMO, is a "jx:importMacros" instruction that just imports
the macros in a macro definition file, without doing any document
inclusion. That would solve the macro problem in a clean way.
Now, we still might want a skip whitespace instruction. But we shouldn't
introduce it as a workaround for fixing problems macros, better fix the
macros directly.
/Daniel
