indent='yes' does not indent

[mi...@objectweb.org]

My xslt contains
<xsl:output method='xml' indent='yes'/>
but output is not indented. 

I realize that indent='yes' is only a suggestion, so my question is this 
-- Am I doing something wrong?  If not, are there any plans for xalan to 
provide support indenting the generated xml?

Michael Giroux

Re: indent='yes' does not indent

[Johannes Lebek <jo...@gmx.de>]

Hi Michael,

you also must specify the Xalan specific attribute "indent-amount". The 
value is interpreted as number of blanks.

<xsl:output method='xml' indent='yes' xalan:indent-amount="2" 
xmlns:xalan="http://xml.apache.org/xslt"/>

Regards,

Johannes




michael.giroux@objectweb.org wrote:
> My xslt contains
> <xsl:output method='xml' indent='yes'/>
> but output is not indented. 
> 
> I realize that indent='yes' is only a suggestion, so my question is this 
> -- Am I doing something wrong?  If not, are there any plans for xalan to 
> provide support indenting the generated xml?
> 
> Michael Giroux
> 
> 

Re: indent='yes' does not indent

[Joseph Kesselman <ke...@us.ibm.com>]

You also need to set the amount of indentation required per level, which
currently defaults
to 0. See http://xml.apache.org/xalan-j/usagepatterns.html#outputprops

(We should probably re-re-reconsider whether 0 is really the best possible
default, given how often this question comes up. At the very least, we
should add a link in the FAQs to make this detail easier to find.)

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