Format and indent problem

[Zingo]

Hi!

I have a little problem when using Format and Indent on a huge xml math book I'm working on. We use two span class attributes aka
<span class="exercisenumber">
and
<span class="exercisepart">

Can I somehow configure the format and indent to leave them as they are and not
put everything in one big chunk like:

<span class="exercisepart">a</span> Bestäm funktionen A(x). <span class="exercisepart">b</span> Bestäm funktionens definitionsmängd. <span class="exercisepart">c</span> Bestäm funktionens värdemängd.

I want it like this:
<span class="exercisepart">a</span>
Bestäm funktionen A(x).
<span class="exercisepart">b</span>
Bestäm funktionens definitionsmängd.
<span class="exercisepart">c</span>
Bestäm funktionens värdemängd.

Is that possible?

Would also be great to format
<p>
<span class="exercisenumber">1</span> Gör en värdetabell.</p>

to
<p>
<span class="exercisenumber">1</span>
Gör en värdetabell.
</p>


Everything else seems to work ok, it's just that these little issues makes it kind of hard to read. If anyone got ay hint I would really appreciate it. So is it possible to add class attributes and tell the indenter how to handle them? I have tried everything except adding something in "Preserve space elements (XPath)" as I'm not sure how that works.

[sorin_ristache]

Hello,

You should add an XPath expression corresponding to the elements that you want to preserve to the list Preserve space elements (XPath) available from Preferences / Editor / Format / XML. If you know the paths for the parent of the span elements and for the p element, for example /root/a/b and /root/c/p as in the following document:

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<root>

    <a>

        <b>

            <span class="exercisepart">a</span>

            Bestäm funktionen A(x).

            <span class="exercisepart">b</span>

            Bestäm funktionens definitionsmängd.

            <span class="exercisepart">c</span>

            Bestäm funktionens värdemängd.

        </b>

    </a>

    <c>

        <p>

            <span class="exercisenumber">1</span> 

            Gör en värdetabell. 

        </p>

    </c>

</root>

then you must add the paths /root/a/b and /root/c/p to the list Preserve space elements (XPath). If the span and p elements can have different paths in the document you can add the expressions //b and //p to the list Preserve space elements (XPath).

Other option is to add the attribute xml:space="preserve" in the XML document to the elements which you want to preserve when you apply the Format and Indent action, in your case the b and c elements that contain span and p elements, like this:

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<root>

    <a>

        <b xml:space="preserve">

            <span class="exercisepart">a</span>

            Bestäm funktionen A(x).

            <span class="exercisepart">b</span>

            Bestäm funktionens definitionsmängd.

            <span class="exercisepart">c</span>

            Bestäm funktionens värdemängd.

        </b>

    </a>

    <c>

        <p xml:space="preserve">

            <span class="exercisenumber">1</span> 

            Gör en värdetabell. 

        </p>

    </c>

</root>

Regards,
Sorin

[Zingo]

Thx for the insight Sorin but I'm not sure this is working. The
<span class="exercisenumber"> and <span class="exercisepart"> can be anywhere in the document and have all kinds of ancestors so there is not one particular path.

I tried adding these xpath expressions but they have no effect:

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//span[@class='exercisenumber']

and

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//span[@class='exercisepart']

As documented here http://www.w3schools.com/XPath/xpath_syntax.asp in the example

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//title[@lang='eng']

Selects all the title elements that have an attribute named lang with a value of 'eng'

Are these kinds of xpath expressions possible or am I doing something wrong?

[sorin_ristache]

Hello,

As you can read in the dialog for adding an XPath expression to the list Preserve space elements (XPath) available from Preferences / Editor / Format / XML in the current version only the displayed types of simple XPath expressions are allowed, for example //span or /root/parent/span. The expression that you used includes an attribute and it will be ignored.

Also you have the option of adding the attribute xml:space="preserve" to an element that you want to preserve as it is. You can add this attribute to the parent elements of <span class="exercisenumber"> and <span class="exercisepart"> where you want to preserve the formatting.


Regards,
Sorin