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[docbook] Re: Question about prettyprinting Docbook documents and characterentities
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/ Taro Ikai <tikai@ABINITIO.COM> was heard to say:
| I am having a few problems prettyprinting my Docbook documents. I am using
| Cygwin distribution of Tidy.
Beyond the fact that tidy is not designed to pretty print anything but HTML,
it is very, very hard to pretty print DocBook.
It is semantically *wrong* and *in error* to introduce whitespace (or
delete whitespace) from any element that contains mixed content. In
DocBook, that means a whole lot of elements.
As a specific example, given:
<chapter><title>Some title</title>
<para>Some
paragraph
</para><para>Some other
para</para>
</chapter>
It could be pretty printed this way:
<chapter>
<title>Some title</title>
<para>Some
paragraph
</para>
<para>Some other
para</para>
</chapter>
But it would be an error to touch any of the text inside the para elements.
Be seeing you,
norm
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Norman Walsh <ndw@nwalsh.com> | In the bathtub of history the
http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/ | truth is harder to hold than the
Chair, DocBook Technical Committee | soap, and much more difficult to
| find.--Terry Pratchett
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