Alexander Dupuy wrote: >> We are using xmlMind for editing files for DocBook and wanted to know >> if it is possible to keep the source files in TextPad with the same >> formatting, i.e. elements in nested tags. When we make any changes to >> the files in xmlMind, all of this formatting is lost and the tags run >> one after the other in streams. Our developers are used to seeing xml >> files with indented nested tags. We have tried every option on the >> options menu, but cannot seem to stop this from happening. Please help. > > > You can enable indented formatting from the Options->Options dialog by > checking the Indent box on the Save tab. > > This generates pretty reasonable output whenever the DTD or schema for > the document is available. If it is not (or the document is not valid > per the DTD/schema) it may not work too well. > > There are other limitations; indentation within elements that may > contain #PCDATA text (such as <para>) will not nest further > sub-elements. This is generally right (you don't really want a line > break and indent every time you throw in an <emphasis>) but if you are > using lists inside of paragraphs, it gets messy.
This has been much improved recently. Please check this case again because, now, I wouldn't call it messy. > Usually, you can just move the <itemizedlist> or whatever to follow the > <para> instead of being inside it (the formatted display is essentially > the same in most cases, but this is not always possible. > > If the output of XXE isn't sufficiently pretty for your needs, you may > wish to look at automating use of a tool like xmlindent > (http://freshmeat.net/projects/xmlindent/).
