Subject: Re: Formatting_the_result From: Brandon Ibach <bibach@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Tue, 5 Oct 1999 14:47:18 -0500 |
Quoting G. Ken Holman <gkholman@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>: > At 99/10/05 13:32 -0400, Ron Ross wrote: > >On Tue, 5 Oct 1999, Brandon Ibach said: > > > Actually, I was just suggesting we give users the option of having > > > OpenJade *not* put the newlines into the tags, and let them worry > > > about line length themselves, rather than having OpenJade try to sort > > > it out. > > > >If I can add my 2¢ again, I would second this motion if it obviates a > >lot of non-trivial work. It seems to me that it would produce output > >that is more readable and easier to "fix" in an editor that lets the > >user navigate the markup intelligently (such as Emacs-Psgml). > > I would *only* support such an option if it was made painful to use and if > it were made obvious to a user about the impact on their data and then I > would only support it under protest as I think it will be misleading for > people. > Okay... one more time. I *only* suggested that we give Jade an option which would cause it to *not* add the newlines inside of tags. As you just pointed out in your last message, Ken, this makes *no* difference in what a parser sees when reading the document. I'm not talking about doing anything different in the actual data, just eliminating the extra newlines *inside* of the tags. -Brandon :) DSSSList info and archive: http://www.mulberrytech.com/dsssl/dssslist
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