[oXygen-user] Lobbying for a new feature to save on indentation

[G. Ken Holman]

Fellow oXygen users,

I've just learned that a request for a new feature I made long ago is 
getting stale because not enough people have expressed an interest in 
having it added to the software.

Perhaps this is because people haven't considered how helpful it 
might be, so I thought I would lobby here that if you like the idea 
of this feature you might vote for it as well.

In all my SGML and XML editing it has been my preference to keep 
children of the document element un-indented and flush left, starting 
the indentation only with the grandchildren of the document 
element.  I see no utility in indenting the children of the document 
element since it is unambiguous if an element at the left edge is a 
document element or not:  if there is element or text content before 
the start tag or after the end tag, then the element must not be the 
document element.

It may not sound like saving one indent is a lot, but consider the 
file size since that one indent is saved on *every* line.  Also, it 
saves one indent for those of our files (in particular the XSL-FO 
files I review by eye to debug) are indented way over to the wrap position.

The software currently indents children of the document element using 
the preference for indent width ... I suggest a new preference 
checkbox (by default set one way or the other to preserve existing 
behaviour), where the user can indicate the preference such that 
indentation starts with descendants of children of the document 
element, thus putting those children of the document element at 
column 1 of the line.  I'll let the software designers decide what 
wording to use and whether the box is checked or not as the default 
to preserve existing behaviour.

Please send your interest to <support at oxygenxml.com> rather than to 
this mail list, so that it gets properly recorded and doesn't clog up 
threads here.

Thanks for listening!

. . . . . . . . . Ken

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