Subject: Re: [xsl] xmllint and paragraph line width From: "Dave Pawson dave.pawson@xxxxxxxxx" <xsl-list-service@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Mon, 19 Mar 2018 21:12:06 -0000 |
Yes it does Peter? http://xmlsoft.org/xmllint.html --format option? regards On 19 March 2018 at 18:04, peter@xxxxxxxxxxx <xsl-list-service@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On 2018-03-19 15:39, 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. The line breaks make it easier on version control >> tools like Git, and make it easier to see changes and the end of a >> sentence (that would otherwise require scrolling). >> >> It looks like xmllint does not have the formatting option. I'm >> guessing I am missing an obvious step, like using some other tool to >> apply the line breaks. > > > I think so. > >> How do we format paragraphs to a particular width when using xmllint >> in our toolchain? > > > I think you have answered your own question. If xmllint doesn't have an > option to break records in mixed content, then you need some other tool. Are > you tied to using xmllint and nothing else? > > Emacs with psgml-mode does what you want by default, except that it indents > the mixed content for readability because it's an editor. You could turn off > the indentation, I am sure, but I've never wanted to do that; and if you > did, you could run files through it in batch mode. I suspect there are > plenty of people here who can help with that :-) > > You could write some XSLT to do it, but it's harder than you think because > you will need to obey whatever other (unwritten?) business rules you apply > to mixed content. > > ///Peter > > -- Dave Pawson XSLT XSL-FO FAQ. Docbook FAQ.
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