Re: indent XML doc based on spaces?

["Nikolai Grigoriev" <grig at renderx dot com>]

Joshua,

> Has anyone built an XSLT transform that indents an XML file based on spaces
> (e.g. 3 spaces per level)?  I'm just confusing myself here.  The closest I
> have come is modifying the identity transform to be as included below:

Try the following code. It differs only slightly from yours, yet indents both
starting and closing tags and has no limits on element nesting depth.

Regards,
Nikolai

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<xsl:stylesheet version="1.0" xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform">
<xsl:output method="xml"/>
<xsl:param name="indent-increment" select="'   '" />

<xsl:template match="*">
   <xsl:param name="indent" select="'&#xA;'"/>

   <xsl:value-of select="$indent"/>
   <xsl:copy>
     <xsl:copy-of select="@*" />
     <xsl:apply-templates>
       <xsl:with-param name="indent"
            select="concat($indent, $indent-increment)"/>
     </xsl:apply-templates>
     <xsl:value-of select="$indent"/>
   </xsl:copy>
</xsl:template>

<xsl:template match="comment()|processing-instruction()">
   <xsl:copy />
</xsl:template>

<!-- WARNING: this is dangerous. Handle with care -->
<xsl:template match="text()[normalize-space(.)='']"/>

</xsl:stylesheet>




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