Re: Question about prettyprinting Docbook documents and characterentities

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/ Taro Ikai <> was heard to say:
| I am having a few problems prettyprinting my Docbook documents. I am using 
| Cygwin distribution of Tidy.

Beyond the fact that tidy is not designed to pretty print anything but HTML,
it is very, very hard to pretty print DocBook.

It is semantically *wrong* and *in error* to introduce whitespace (or
delete whitespace) from any element that contains mixed content. In
DocBook, that means a whole lot of elements.

As a specific example, given:

<chapter><title>Some title</title>
<para>Some
paragraph
</para><para>Some other
para</para>
</chapter>

It could be pretty printed this way:

<chapter>
  <title>Some title</title>
  <para>Some
paragraph
</para>
  <para>Some other
para</para>
</chapter>

But it would be an error to touch any of the text inside the para elements.

                                        Be seeing you,
                                          norm

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Norman Walsh <>      | In the bathtub of history the
http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/ | truth is harder to hold than the
Chair, DocBook Technical Committee | soap, and much more difficult to
                                   | find.--Terry Pratchett
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