Schema-aware Format and Indent

[dsewell]

A couple of times in the past, people have posted to the forums about the problem of formatting elements that can take mixed content (according to a schema) but that have only element children in a document instance. For example,

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<p><b>foo</b><i>bar</i></p>

will be formatted as

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<p>

  <b>foo</b>

  <i>bar</i>

</p>

unless ithe 'p' element is added as a preserve-space element in the oXygen formatting preferences.

If the XML document is associated with a schema that defines <p> as a mixed-content element, then ideally the formatter should know never to add whitespace while formatting.

Near the bottom of the thread http://www.oxygenxml.com/forum/ftopic1962.html, George suggested that schema/DTD-aware formatting might be a possibility. Is this still under consideration as a feature to add to oXygen? It would be helpful.

[sorin_ristache]

Hello,

The request is logged in our issue tracking system and we will consider it for a future version of oXygen. Probably it will have to look at the schema to see if the content model is mixed content or element only but the implementation is not very easy.


Regards,
Sorin

[dsewell]

Thanks, Sorin.

I can imagine that the programming would be complicated. It's not as high a priority as other enhancements that have been discussed, so I'm sure we can be patient.

[Radu]

Hi,

Starting from Oxygen 11.2 by default the Author page only formats and indents the newly inserted/modified XML content leaving the unchanged content intact. Also, both the Author and Text pages take into account information from the associated schema when format and indent is applied.

Regards,
Radu