Thanks for the quick response. On Mon, Dec 08, 2008 at 06:50:39PM +0100, Hussein Shafie wrote: > > 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.
It's not so much trouble as my desire not to clutter the history of version controlled documents with unecessary white space changes. > > 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". I understand. > --- > 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. Overkill indeed. I'll probably resort to asking my users to remember to modify/save the document manually after running the transformation command. Thanks again!
