thanks Hussein Shafie wrote: > Leos Literak wrote: > >>shall I check them or uncheck them? I understand trim spaces >>as create one big file with no intendation. Am I right? > > > No. See below. > > >>And also I dont think if Open settings shall affect Save >>behaviour. In my eyes these are separate and even if opened >>file didn't have any intendation > > > True. > > >>and you set intendation on >>save, then save shall put intendation in saved file. >>What do you think? > > > True. > > > Here is the detailed explanation: > --------------------------------- > > In the case of documents without a DTD, when the "When no DTD is being > used, guess what spaces are not useful and trim them" toggle is checked, > Open behavior is based on the following _heuristic_ (heuristic 1): > > 1) When an element contains text other that white spaces, white spaces > are not stripped. > > 2) When an element contains other elements and white spaces, white > spaces are stripped. > > (Off course, the xml:space attribute supersedes the heuristic) > > In the case of documents without a DTD, Indent (aka Save) behavior is > based on the following heuristic (heuristic 2): > > 1) An element containing text, even if white space, is formatted like a > paragraph: not indented. > > 2) An element only containing other elements is formatted like a > structure: indented. > > Of course, heuristic 2 does not work very well :-) when heuristic 1 has > not been applied first, which is exactly the problem you have described. > > > > Here are the settings I always use and that I recommend in your case: > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Open Tab: check "When no DTD is being used, guess what spaces are not > useful and trim them" > > Save Tab: check "Indent when no DTD" > > Save Tab: set indentation to 2 (or any value > 0) > > >
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