Re: [xsl] Expanding Tabs

Subject: Re: [xsl] Expanding Tabs
From: Wolfgang Laun <wolfgang.laun@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 30 Mar 2010 16:18:25 +0200
Tab stops are always by convention and rarely contained in a data file.

At least that's my experience with generations of text editors and
frequent anger due to seeing weird alignment after switching editors.

-W

On Tue, Mar 30, 2010 at 4:00 PM, Dave Pawson <davep@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On Tue, 30 Mar 2010 14:08:26 +0100
> "Michael Kay" <mike@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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> > >
> > > What I'm doing is converting old text documents into XML.
> >
> > So why not run a text-based utility on them to convert tabs into
> > spaces, before you do anything else?
>
> Isn't the line length, tab-stop setting etc missing from the XML?
> Even with text pre-processing I'm not sure how this can be done?
>
> guesswork?
>
>
> regards
>
>
>
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> Dave Pawson
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