SGML/XML: fill-paragraph between start and end tags

SGML/XML: fill-paragraph between start and end tags

[Moore, Mathew L]

I am writing xml in sgml-mode.

Is there a convenient way to perform a fill-paragraph that operates only
between the start-tag and end-tag surrounding the current point?

If I have this:

<report>
  <title>This is a short tag</title>
  <description>
    <p>This is a long paragraph...</p>
  </description>
</report>

and do a fill-paragraph while the point is between the <p> and </p>,
then I get this,

<report>
  <title>This is a short tag</title>
  <description>
    <p>This is a long paragraph that needs to be
  filled only between the "p" tags.</p>
  </description> </report>

instead of the more preferable,

<report>
  <title>This is a short tag</title>
  <description>
    <p>This is a long paragraph that needs to be
    filled only between the "p" tags.</p>
  </description>
</report>

Thanks in advance,

--Matt Moore

Re: SGML/XML: fill-paragraph between start and end tags

[Stefan Monnier]

> I am writing xml in sgml-mode.

If you're not using it already I recommend you try out the sgml-mode.el
version in the Emacs-CVS repository, which you can browse from
http://savannah.gnu.org/projects/emacs.  It has some improvements for
XML editing.

> Is there a convenient way to perform a fill-paragraph that operates only
> between the start-tag and end-tag surrounding the current point?

Other than selecting the region and calling fill-region, no, I don't know
how to do that conveniently.

> If I have this:

> <report>
>   <title>This is a short tag</title>
>   <description>
>     <p>This is a long paragraph...</p>
>   </description>
> </report>

> and do a fill-paragraph while the point is between the <p> and </p>,
> then I get this,

> <report>
>   <title>This is a short tag</title>
>   <description>
>     <p>This is a long paragraph that needs to be
>   filled only between the "p" tags.</p>
>   </description> </report>

A lonely tag like </description> should be considered as
a paragraph separator and prevent filling.  There's obviously a bug.
Please report it with M-x report-emacs-bug.  But if you can try it with the
above-mentioned CVS code first (I believe the new sgml-mode.el still works
in Emacs-21.3) it's even better.


        Stefan

Re: SGML/XML: fill-paragraph between start and end tags

[Jeffery B. Rancier]

"Moore, Mathew L" <MooreML@BATTELLE.ORG> writes:

> I am writing xml in sgml-mode.
>
> Is there a convenient way to perform a fill-paragraph that operates only
> between the start-tag and end-tag surrounding the current point?
>
> If I have this:
>
> <report>
>   <title>This is a short tag</title>
>   <description>
>     <p>This is a long paragraph...</p>
>   </description>
> </report>
>
> and do a fill-paragraph while the point is between the <p> and </p>,
> then I get this,
>
> <report>
>   <title>This is a short tag</title>
>   <description>
>     <p>This is a long paragraph that needs to be
>   filled only between the "p" tags.</p>
>   </description> </report>
>
> instead of the more preferable,
>
> <report>
>   <title>This is a short tag</title>
>   <description>
>     <p>This is a long paragraph that needs to be
>     filled only between the "p" tags.</p>
>   </description>
> </report>
>
> Thanks in advance,
>
> --Matt Moore

You may want to look at psgml mode:

http://sourceforge.net/projects/psgml/
-- 
Thanks,
Jeff

RE: SGML/XML: fill-paragraph between start and end tags

[Moore, Mathew L]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Stefan Monnier [mailto:monnier@iro.umontreal.ca] 
> Sent: Friday, March 05, 2004 09:29
> To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
> Subject: Re: SGML/XML: fill-paragraph between start and end tags
> 
> 
> > I am writing xml in sgml-mode.
> 
> If you're not using it already I recommend you try out the 
> sgml-mode.el
> version in the Emacs-CVS repository, which you can browse from
> http://savannah.gnu.org/projects/emacs.  It has some improvements for
> XML editing.
> 



The CVS version of sgml-mode seems to solve the problem outlined below.
I'll try to keep myself a little more up-to-date.

Thanks, Stefan!

--Matt



> > If I have this:
> 
> > <report>
> >   <title>This is a short tag</title>
> >   <description>
> >     <p>This is a long paragraph...</p>
> >   </description>
> > </report>
> 
> > and do a fill-paragraph while the point is between the <p> and </p>,
> > then I get this,
> 
> > <report>
> >   <title>This is a short tag</title>
> >   <description>
> >     <p>This is a long paragraph that needs to be
> >   filled only between the "p" tags.</p>
> >   </description> </report>
> 
> A lonely tag like </description> should be considered as
> a paragraph separator and prevent filling.  There's obviously a bug.
> Please report it with M-x report-emacs-bug.  But if you can 
> try it with the
> above-mentioned CVS code first (I believe the new 
> sgml-mode.el still works
> in Emacs-21.3) it's even better.
> 
> 
>         Stefan
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