Thanks for the information. My document was structurally valid, however I was using the <code> element not a <programlisting> element.
Using the latter has fixed the problem. With regards to the archive searching, it may be helpful to have a search bar easily visible from the archives and/or support pages which is explicitly documented as able to search the mailing list archives. I honestly did not see the search bar at the top right of the page and would have assumed that it was for searching all webpages not mailing list archives too. Anyhow, thanks again. Brendon. Hussein Shafie wrote: > Brendon Costa wrote: >> I imagine this is a common question. I looked in the FAQ, HOWTO and >> Users Wish List and found nothing. > > Not really because other users don't have this problem. See below. > > > >> Just as a note as well, i could not >> find a page to search the archives. I must be blind... > > The Search box found at the top of all pages of the > www.xmlmind.com/xmleditor/ ``sub-site'' may be used to search both the > Web ``sub-site'' and the mailing list archives. > > > >> Anyhow, I am trying to add some code to a Dockbook format "book" under >> a "code" section. All looks good, but when I restart XML Mind Editor >> and reload the document all white-space in the code segment is gone. I >> expect this for most other text segments, but I assumed that >> white-space would have been preserved in a code section. > > Of course, you are right. The problem is that, in principle, this is > already the case. > > Whitespace (including newlines) is preserved in the following DocBook > elements: > > --- > address > funcsynopsisinfo > classsynopsisinfo > literallayout > programlisting > screen > synopsis > --- > > However if your DocBook document is structurally invalid (red icon at > the bottom/left of the main window), whitespace cannot be properly > preserved by XXE. > > If this is the case, the first thing to do is to fix the structure of > your document. > > If this is not the case, do not hesitate to send us the document having > the problem you describe. May be you have found a bug (but I really > doubt this is the case). > > > >> I am sure there is some attribute that can be set or something of the >> like that allows white-space to be preserved. This is my first time >> using DocBook so if someone could point me in the right direction in >> order to preserve white-space in a code element it would be great, or >> a good place to look to find such reference information might be great >> too. > > The most common way to preserve whitespace in an element is to add > attribute xml:space with default value "preserve" to the declaration of > this element in the DTD or in the schema. > > With DocBook, this is not the case. That's why this is specified in an > XXE configuration file. > > Excerpts of XXE_install_dir/addon/config/docbook/common.incl > > --- > <cfg:preserveSpace xmlns="" > elements="address funcsynopsisinfo classsynopsisinfo > literallayout programlisting screen synopsis" /> > --- > > More info. in > http://www.xmlmind.com/xmleditor/_distrib/doc/configure/preserveSpace.html > > -- > XMLmind XML Editor Support List > xmleditor-support at xmlmind.com > http://www.xmlmind.com/mailman/listinfo/xmleditor-support > > > >
