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RE: How can I reindent an XML-file for readability?
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- Subject: RE: [xsl] How can I reindent an XML-file for readability?
- From: "Michael Kay" <mhkay at iclway dot co dot uk>
- Date: Thu, 7 Jun 2001 10:26:38 +0100
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> How can i reindent files which belong to one big xml document.
> if i have a master.xml with external entitites like this:
>
> <book><docinfo><author>anybody</author></docinfo>
> &part1;
> &part2;
> </book>
>
> i cant apply the given stylsheet to this masterfile because i
> get one big
> indented xml, but i want to keep the xml file splitted into
> small entities.
>
> Is there a way to indent those files with XSL?
>
Preprocess the file using SED to replace "&" by ""; then run the
transformation; then postprocess using SED to replace "" by "&".
Mike Kay
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