[oXygen-user] Indentation, and diffing

[George Cristian Bina]

Hi Florent,

You will be able to edit the XSLT documentation visually if you switch 
to the Author page. Please note that the XSLT will be serialized after 
editing, that is it will be formated by oXygen.

There are a number of options that we offer for the format and indent 
action. They are available from Options->Preferences -- Editor / Format 
/ XML. You can try the "Break line before attribute's name" to get 
something like

<xsl:stylesheet
   xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform"
   xmlns:xs="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema"
   xmlns:xd="http://www.oxygenxml.com/ns/doc/xsl"
   xmlns:http="http://www.expath.org/mod/http-client"
   xmlns:ser="http://www.fgeorges.org/xslt/serial"
   exclude-result-prefixes="#all"
   version="2.0">

A possible enhancement will be to add an additional option, something like:

[x] Starting with the second attribute

that when enabled will cause the first attribute to stay on the same 
line with the element name and to align the rest of the attributes with 
the first one, like in your sample.


I cannot reproduce the 3 spaces indent issue. Please note that by 
default oXygen is set to detect automatically the indent from the file 
content. Just make sure the detected indent is not 3, or disable the 
"Detect indent on open" option from Options->Preferences -- Editor / Format.

To disable indenting on paste go to Options->Preferences -- Editor / 
Format / XML and disable the "Indent on paste" option.

There is no option to preserve the space between attributes.

You may find useful the "Format and indent element" action, CMD+I on 
Mac, that indents the current element. Also, if you have a selection the 
"Indent selection" action (that can be triggered also with CMD+I on Mac) 
  will act only on the indents, without changing anything in other places.

The diff and merge support is still available in oXygen XML editor but 
it is also a separate product. Right now it does not offer a result 
file. However I expect that having it as a separate product will result 
in allocating more development resources in that direction so we will 
consider improving it, including such a result file and 3-way diff and 
merge support for XML files.

Best Regards,
George
-- 
George Cristian Bina
<oXygen/> XML Editor, Schema Editor and XSLT Editor/Debugger
http://www.oxygenxml.com

Florent Georges wrote:
>   Hi,
> 
>   I've just installed the brand-new 11.1.  Congrats!  Just a
> couple of questions/remarks.  The announce says "Visual Editing
> of the XSLT Documentation".  How can I use it?
> 
>   I sometimes, in quite specific cases, do align attributes and
> namespace declarations of an element each on its own line, the
> first one after the element name then other at the same position
> as the first one:
> 
>     <xsl:stylesheet xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform"
>                     xmlns:xs="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema"
>                     xmlns:xd="http://www.oxygenxml.com/ns/doc/xsl"
>                     xmlns:http="http://www.expath.org/mod/http-client"
>                     xmlns:ser="http://www.fgeorges.org/xslt/serial"
>                     exclude-result-prefixes="#all"
>                     version="2.0">
> 
>   I've never used Cmd-P on stylesheets, but with the new
> documentation system, I do, as my stylesheets do contain text
> elements now.  And those attributes are realigned like this:
> 
>     <xsl:stylesheet xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform"
>        xmlns:xs="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema" xmlns:xd="http://www.oxygenxml.com/ns/doc/xsl"
>        xmlns:http="http://www.expath.org/mod/http-client"
>        xmlns:ser="http://www.fgeorges.org/xslt/serial" exclude-result-prefixes="#all"
>        version="2.0">
> 
>   Is it possible to tell oXygen to not indent attributes aligned
> on their element's name?
> 
>   Another strange behaviour is reformatting the following:
> 
>     <xsl:sequence select="
>         if ( exists($relative) ) then
>           resolve-uri($relative, $base)
>         else
>           $base"/>
> 
> as:
> 
>     <xsl:sequence
>        select="
>         if ( exists($relative) ) then
>           resolve-uri($relative, $base)
>         else
>           $base
>     "/>
> 
>   And if I copy and paste the former, I get the following:
> 
>     <xsl:sequence select="
>        if ( exists($relative) ) then
>        resolve-uri($relative, $base)
>        else
>        $base"/>
> 
> Lines are re-indented (with 3 spaces instead of 4) and all on the
> same column.  This is quite perturbing to have the usual paste to
> format the pasted content.
> 
>   And last but not least, I often align attributes of different
> elements, on subsecutive lignes, on the same columns:
> 
>     <xsl:variable name="one"      select="..."/>
>     <xsl:variable name="thirteen" select="..."/>
>     <xsl:variable name="two"      select="..."/>
> 
> But after Cmd-P, all attributes are separated by one single space
> (when they stay on the same line).  Is there a way to disable
> changing the spaces between attributes?
> 
>   Oh yes...  And I like the standalone diff application!  When
> diffing two XML files, is it possible to save a third file, with
> diffs annotated?  To get something like the XMLSpec diff version?
> I know diffing XML is a hard problem, because of the numerous
> ways of defining what's a difference, what's an addition, what's
> a modification, etc.  But that would be very helpful as a first
> draft, even if we had to fine-tune the file by hand in a second
> time.
> 
>   Well, sorry for all those little, various notes in a single
> email..  Hope that helps!
> 
>   Regards,
>