REXML - controlling whitespaces and inserting CR

C

Charles Wel

Hello All,

I have an XML file containing this
<properties>
<property key="ABC">
<value xml:lang="de">Description de</value>
<value xml:lang="en">Description en</value>
</property>
<property key="XYZ">
<value xml:lang="de">Description de</value>
<value xml:lang="en">Description en</value>
</property>
</properties>

I made a code to add a new <value> tag to each <property>.
The part of code is:

require "rexml/document"
include REXML
...
...
pval = Element.new("value")
pval.add_attribute("xml:lang","fr")
pval.add_text("Description fr")
fproperty.elements << pval
fproperty is the node object

My final XML file looks like this:

<properties>
<property key="ABC">
<value xml:lang="de">Description de</value>
<value xml:lang="en">Description en</value>
<value xml:lang="fr">Description fr</value></property>
<property key="XYZ">
<value xml:lang="de">Description de</value>
<value xml:lang="en">Description en</value>
<value xml:lang="fr">Description fr</value></property>
</properties>

One "TAB" is inserted for each 4 spaces which were in the original file.
How to avoid this?
And how to add a CR to the new element?

Thanks for your help, I'm a very newby
 
R

Robert Klemme

2010/8/1 Charles Wel said:
Hello All,

I have an XML file containing this
<properties>
=A0 =A0<property key=3D"ABC">
=A0 =A0 =A0 =A0<value xml:lang=3D"de">Description de</value>
=A0 =A0 =A0 =A0<value xml:lang=3D"en">Description en</value>
=A0 =A0</property>
=A0 =A0<property key=3D"XYZ">
=A0 =A0 =A0 =A0<value xml:lang=3D"de">Description de</value>
=A0 =A0 =A0 =A0<value xml:lang=3D"en">Description en</value>
=A0 =A0</property>
</properties>

I made a code to add a new <value> tag to each <property>.
The part of code is:

require "rexml/document"
include REXML
...
...
=A0 =A0 =A0pval =3D Element.new("value")
=A0 =A0 =A0pval.add_attribute("xml:lang","fr")
=A0 =A0 =A0pval.add_text("Description fr")
=A0 =A0 =A0fproperty.elements << pval
fproperty is the node object

My final XML file looks like this:

<properties>
=A0<property key=3D"ABC">
=A0 =A0<value xml:lang=3D"de">Description de</value>
=A0 =A0<value xml:lang=3D"en">Description en</value>
=A0 =A0<value xml:lang=3D"fr">Description fr</value></property>
=A0<property key=3D"XYZ">
=A0 =A0<value xml:lang=3D"de">Description de</value>
=A0 =A0<value xml:lang=3D"en">Description en</value>
=A0 =A0<value xml:lang=3D"fr">Description fr</value></property>
</properties>

One "TAB" is inserted for each 4 spaces which were in the original file.
How to avoid this?
And how to add a CR to the new element?

Thanks for your help, I'm a very newby

I think, you will have to create your own formatter - or use a
different one for output. You'll find some explanation in the REXML
documentation.

Kind regards

robert


--=20
remember.guy do |as, often| as.you_can - without end
http://blog.rubybestpractices.com/
 
C

Charles Wel

Robert said:
I think, you will have to create your own formatter - or use a
different one for output. You'll find some explanation in the REXML
documentation.

Thank you Robert for your reply.
I am willing to write my own formatter but despite I read some REXML
docs, I don't know where to begin. :-D

This is really my first day with ruby;
concerning REXML I'll be happy to be pointed to some samples.

In advance Thanks to All,

Charles
 
R

Robert Klemme

2010/8/1 Charles Wel said:
Thank you Robert for your reply.
I am willing to write my own formatter but despite I read some REXML
docs, I don't know where to begin. :-D

This is really my first day with ruby;
concerning REXML I'll be happy to be pointed to some samples.

I hope you found it by now. If not, please see
http://www.germane-software.com/software/rexml/docs/tutorial.html

Cheers

robert


--=20
remember.guy do |as, often| as.you_can - without end
http://blog.rubybestpractices.com/
 
J

John W Higgins

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

Afternoon,

You might find it just as easy to take that output and push it out to a file
and then hit it with xmlindent (http://xmlindent.sourceforge.net/) it will
do exactly what you want. No sense in re-inventing the wheel.

John
 

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