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: > > > > > > > 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 > > > > -- > > regards > > -- > Dave Pawson > XSLT XSL-FO FAQ. > http://www.dpawson.co.uk
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