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author | Arseny Kapoulkine <arseny.kapoulkine@gmail.com> | 2015-03-18 08:34:23 -0700 |
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committer | Arseny Kapoulkine <arseny.kapoulkine@gmail.com> | 2015-03-18 09:59:17 -0700 |
commit | 5f996eba6deaa804bf4caced8acc65d8626720d6 (patch) | |
tree | 6f950e655956c17b657f1239ab0a9f655bf83c87 /docs/manual/access.html | |
parent | 51da129b50a0b99ee85af20cc4a4b77f6bc823ff (diff) |
Do not emit surrounding whitespace for text nodes
Previously we omitted extra whitespace for single PCDATA/CDATA children, but in
mixed content there was extra indentation before/after text nodes.
One of the problems with that is that the text that you saved is not exactly
the same as the parsing result using default flags (parse_trim_pcdata helps).
Another problem is that parse-format cycles do not have a fixed point for mixed
content - the result expands indefinitely. Some XML libraries, like Python
minidom, have the same issue, but this is definitely a problem.
Pretty-printing mixed content is hard. It seems that the only other sensible
choice is to switch mixed content nodes to raw formatting. In a way the code in
this change is a weaker version of that - it removes indentation around text
nodes but still keeps it around element siblings/children.
Thus we can switch to mixed-raw formatting at some point later, which will be
a superset of the current behavior.
To do this we have to either switch at the first text node (.NET XmlDocument
does that), or scan the children of each element for a possible text node and
switch before we output the first child.
The former behavior seems non-intuitive (and a bit broken); unfortunately, the
latter behavior can cost up to 20% of the output time for trees *without* mixed
content.
Fixes #13.
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