Finding best way to pretty print XML files

[Pk Z.]

Havn't found best soultion to pretty print XML:

REXML: It has pp functionality, but it wrap elements like <a>content</a>
to
<a>
content
</a>

Nokogiri: there is a approch to pp, see ex:

# Pretty print XML
require "nokogiri"

def write(buffer)

xsl =<<XSL
<xsl:stylesheet version="1.0"
xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform">
<xslutput method="xml" encoding="UTF-8" indent="yes"/>

<xsl:strip-space elements="*"/>
<xsl:template match="/">
<xsl:copy-of select="."/>
</xsl:template>

</xsl:stylesheet>
XSL

doc = Nokogiri::XML(buffer)
xslt = Nokogiri::XSLT(xsl)
out = xslt.transform(doc)
out.to_xml
end

But nokogiri has another problem, which unwrap CDATA.

Any better solution? Thanks. And apologize for my poor english.

 

[Pk Z.]

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[Jonas Pfenniger (zimbatm)]

Sorry if you haven't got any help,

could you provide more informations to the output you want ?

There are many ways to indent XML code. Maybe you don't want to wrap lines
with <a>content</a>, but what if the content is longer ? Do you have a
column limit ?

In your place, I would take the pp code of nokogiri and tweak it until it
gives me what I want.

Hope that help,
zimbatm

 

[Mike Dalessio]

[Note: parts of this message were removed to make it a legal post.]

In my experience, everyone has a different definition of "pretty printing".
If you want to get more specific about what you'd like to see, perhaps
people can give you a more specific answer.