El 23/09/2011 11:01, Hussein Shafie escribió: > On 09/22/2011 10:47 PM, Tyrin Avery wrote: >> >> My group lead is converting Mylyn DITA output into more polished DITA in >> eclipse and had a file with a<section> inside another<section>. >> XMLMind allowed him to open it, even though it was not valid, work in >> it, > > That's normal. Doing this allows you to fix the structure of your document. > >> and then eliminated the whitespace in the<codeblock> elements when >> he saved it. > > When a document is structurally valid, the whitespace is preserved in > <codeblock> elements. (We have retested this.) > > When XMLmind XML Editor loads a document having invalid structure errors > (such as a<section> inside a<section>), it shows you a red icon at the > bottom left of its main window and it switches to a non-validating mode. > Once you fix the invalid structure errors, it will automatically switch > to its normal, strictly validating, mode. > > If you save a document when XMLmind XML Editor is in the non-validating > mode, currently it's not aware that the DITA DTD says: by default, > <codeblock> has attribute xml:space="preserve". Hence the problem you had. > > We acknowledge that XMLmind XML Editor could be a little smarter even > when it's in the non-validating mode. We'll try to improve this in the > next release. (It's too late for v5 which should be released in the next > few days.)
I've experienced this non-preserved space inconvenience a lot of times. Perhaps the simplest approach could be to just preserve all space while in non-validating mode. Once the document becomes valid, XXE can reformat the whitespace as usual. -- Manuel Collado - http://lml.ls.fi.upm.es/~mcollado -- XMLmind XML Editor Support List [email protected] http://www.xmlmind.com/mailman/listinfo/xmleditor-support
