Thanks.  I will make these changes.
Is there a reasoning for the 3 spaces ?  I misconfigured my XML Spy to use
tabs instead of spaces.  But I've never heard of 3 spaces before, usually
its 4 (or 8 for unix paranoid).  Is there a list of the xindice specific
coding conventions?  Beyond http://www.apache.org/dev/styleguide.html which
claims:

"Each level of indentation of code is four spaces. Tab characters should
never be used."

Would anyone object if we moved from 3 to 4 spaces?

I'm happy to reformat all the existing forrest documentation to meet that
standard.

dave


-----Original Message-----
From: Vladimir R. Bossicard [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Thursday, November 21, 2002 2:50 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: cvs commit:
xml-xindice/src/documentation/content/xdocs/community/howto/installation
book.xml tomcat.xml


>   -   <menu label="Installation How-Tos">
>   -      <menu-item label="Tomcat How-to"
href="installation/tomcat.html"/>
>   -   </menu>

>   +   <menu label="Compilation How-Tos">
>   +           <menu-item label="Windows" href="compilation/windows.html"/>
>   +           <menu-item label="Unix" href="compilation/unix.html"/>
>   +   </menu>

3 spaces, not tabs, please :-)  It's a common rule in the Apache project to
use
spaces and not tabs, so it would be best if we can enforce this rule for
Xindice also.  Normally it's 4 spaces, but the Xindice code is formatted
with 3
spaces.  Even if I don't agree, I respect the rule.

I wouldn't like to see 300k diff files just because of some formatting
difference.

Does anyone know a (free) code formatting tool for XML that we could use
before
committing xml files?

-Vladimir

--
Vladimir R. Bossicard
Apache Xindice - http://xml.apache.org/xindice


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