Re: DOCBOOK-APPS: code examples and whitespace

[Nick Bauman <nick at cortexity dot com>]

Jirka Kosek wrote:

> Nick Bauman wrote:
>> 
>> Er, anyone else have this problem? When I have a code example, my
>> white space is flattened into one line by my XML editor (XMLMind). My
>> how this sucks! Kinda undermines the whole point of of a code snippet.
> 
> The are possibly two solutions:
> 
> 1. You can configure your editor to preserve space in programlisting. I
> don't know if XMLMind allows this.

I don't see where it does allow it.

> 2. You can add xml:space="preserve" attribute to programlisting. This
> should prevent your editor from mangling white-space. But you then will
> be unable validate DocBook document as current DTD doesn't contain this
> attribute. I think that this will be fixed in DocBook 4.2, but I'm not
> sure.

I'm using the 4.1.2 DTD by the way.
 
> (3. Of course you can always change your XML editor. My Emacs doesn't
> corrupt my documents ;-)
> 
> 				Jirka

Golly, Someday someone will build entire planets using just Emacs. I will 
try that, (using emacs, not building planets) thanks. 

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