Pretty printing a DOM tree

["David R." <da...@hotmail.com>]

I am using a piece of code extracted from the DOMPrint sample in order to 
dump a DOM tree into a XML file. I have also taken a look at the serializer 
at the following address:
http://www.xs4all.nl/~ewh/DOMSerializer

Both solutions generate a XML file which is very difficult to be read by a 
human. Does anybody know of a solution to generate a formatted output?

IMHO, there are two ways to get a pretty print:

a) Adding "text nodes" between every two "element nodes" in the DOM tree 
(either having a sibling relation or parent/child relation). The value of 
the text node should be a carriage return ("\n") followed by a number of 
blank spaces ("   ") depending on the indentation of every line in the XML 
file. After that, the DOM tree would be dumped into the XML file.

b) Reformating the XML file by using a program which takes an XML file, and 
after some processing it writes into another different XML file. In that 
case, any change in the DOM tree would require dumping and reformatting 
again.

I am not sure if you will understand what I mean. I have not found any 
previous work on that subject, so any hints would be appreciated.

Thanks in advance,
David Ruana


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Re: Pretty printing a DOM tree

[Robert Buck <rb...@mathworks.com>]

There are lots of examples on the web for "pretty print" serializers. Do a 
search at google. They all are basically the same and work well.

Bob


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RE: Pretty printing a DOM tree

[Evert Haasdijk <ev...@zukkespijkers.nl>]

David,

You can try using the attached code to prettify the DOM.

Hope this helps,

Evert

> -----Original Message-----
> From: David R. [mailto:dakotasiux@hotmail.com]
> Sent: Thursday, May 23, 2002 3:37 PM
> To: xerces-c-dev@xml.apache.org
> Subject: Pretty printing a DOM tree
>
>
>
> I am using a piece of code extracted from the DOMPrint sample in order to
> dump a DOM tree into a XML file. I have also taken a look at the
> serializer
> at the following address:
> http://www.xs4all.nl/~ewh/DOMSerializer
>
> Both solutions generate a XML file which is very difficult to be
> read by a
> human. Does anybody know of a solution to generate a formatted output?
>
> IMHO, there are two ways to get a pretty print:
>
> a) Adding "text nodes" between every two "element nodes" in the DOM tree
> (either having a sibling relation or parent/child relation). The value of
> the text node should be a carriage return ("\n") followed by a number of
> blank spaces ("   ") depending on the indentation of every line
> in the XML
> file. After that, the DOM tree would be dumped into the XML file.
>
> b) Reformating the XML file by using a program which takes an XML
> file, and
> after some processing it writes into another different XML file. In that
> case, any change in the DOM tree would require dumping and reformatting
> again.
>
> I am not sure if you will understand what I mean. I have not found any
> previous work on that subject, so any hints would be appreciated.
>
> Thanks in advance,
> David Ruana
>
>
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