Re: [xsl] xmllint and paragraph line width

Subject: Re: [xsl] xmllint and paragraph line width
From: "Liam R. E. Quin liam@xxxxxx" <xsl-list-service@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 19 Mar 2018 22:47:52 -0000
On Mon, 2018-03-19 at 15:39 +0000, Jeffrey Walton noloader@xxxxxxxxx
wrote:
> Hi Everyone,
> 
> We run our book source through xmllint before making the book and
> checking in sources to version control.
> 
> We would like to format the sources so paragraphs have a break at 80
> or 90 chracters. 

I'd suggest using XSLT, with xsltproc.

http://users.atw.hu/xsltcookbook2/xsltckbk2-chp-7-sect-6.html
may do what you want, wth some modification.

The --format option to xmllint doesn't reflow text.

Liam


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