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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.

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:
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:
Regards,
Sorin

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

Code: Select all

//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?

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