From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
To: mah@everybody.org (Mark A. Hershberger)
Cc: Eric Lilja <mindcooler@gmail.com>, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Bug in nxml-mode (indentation)?
Date: Thu, 20 Dec 2007 19:41:20 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <jwvsl1wlw68.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <8763ywvf4y.fsf@everybody.org> (Mark A. Hershberger's message of "Mon, 17 Dec 2007 22:46:37 -0500")
>> Is the nxml-mode way of indenting vs xml-mode in this particular
>> example to be considered a bug?
> Space can be significant (i.e. can convey meaning) in XML and there is
> no way to figure out what the space means just from the snippets you've
> given. Depending on the application, the following XML could be
> considered identical or completely different:
> <foo>bar</foo>
> or
> <foo>
> bar
> </foo>
> or
> <foo>
> bar
> </foo>
But this problem you bring up is about whether to auto-indent or not,
not about *how* to auto-indent. I.e. it's unrelated to the OP's problem.
Stefan
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-12-21 0:41 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-12-17 21:56 Bug in nxml-mode (indentation)? Eric Lilja
2007-12-18 3:46 ` Mark A. Hershberger
2007-12-18 9:15 ` Eric Lilja
2007-12-18 9:38 ` Jason Rumney
2007-12-18 9:46 ` Eric Lilja
2007-12-18 10:23 ` Jason Rumney
2007-12-18 10:52 ` Eric Lilja
2007-12-18 11:29 ` Jason Rumney
2007-12-18 12:55 ` Eric Lilja
2007-12-18 20:59 ` Edward O'Connor
2007-12-18 21:53 ` Eric Lilja
2007-12-21 2:05 ` Edward O'Connor
2007-12-18 20:10 ` Lennart Borgman (gmail)
2007-12-21 0:41 ` Stefan Monnier [this message]
2007-12-21 4:05 ` Mark A. Hershberger
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