Carsten Milling wrote: > On Tue, Dec 02, 2008 at 07:18:49PM +0100, Hussein Shafie wrote: >> * If you want to use your XSLT style sheets, it is also possible to >> write a simple macro-command -- >> http://www.xmlmind.com/xmleditor/_distrib/doc/commands/macro.html -- which: >> >> [1] Save the document being edited to disk using "XXE.save [ifNeeded]" >> -- http://www.xmlmind.com/xmleditor/_distrib/doc/commands/XXE.save.html. >> >> [2] Invokes your XSLT scripts by the means of a process command -- >> http://www.xmlmind.com/xmleditor/_distrib/doc/commands/process.html -- >> to transform the file containing the document being edited. >> >> [3] Uses "XXE.open [reopen]" -- >> http://www.xmlmind.com/xmleditor/_distrib/doc/commands/XXE.open.html -- >> to replace the document being edited by the updated one. > > this is great. I used this to implement a nice feature in one of my > own XXE projects. > > I have one tiny issue though: My XSLT transformation slightly changes > the indentation and white space distribution in the resulting > document.
Normally, such indentation is ignored by XXE. I don't see what kind of troubles this could cause. > That's why I would like to make XXE automatically (re)save > the document after reopening it. What would be the best way to achieve > this? I tried to add some commands after XXE.open to modify and save > the document. But, apparently, these commands are not executed at > all. Is that expected behavior? I'm using XXE 4.1.0 Personal Edition. > Yes. A macro-command runs in the context of the document being edited. Let's call it documentA. The macro-command saves documentA to disk, applies an XSLT transformation to it and reopen it to XXE. The document reopened in XXE is documentA', not the original documentA. And the macro-command that was applied on documentA, has no effect on documentA'. In a nutshell, you cannot add any subsequent command after a "XXE.open". --- PS: A bit overkill: add a shell child element to you process command -- http://www.xmlmind.com/xmleditor/_distrib/doc/commands/shell.html -- in order to execute xmltool indent -- http://www.xmlmind.com/xmleditor/_distrib/doc/xmltool/index.html -- to re-indent your XML file exactly like XXE.
