splitting long lines

[ol...@rwg.de]

Hello,

is it possible to split a long line into several lines (e.g. with a "\" at the
end of line like in make)?

cheers
Oliver
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Re: splitting long lines

[Stefan Bodewig <bo...@bost.de>]

>>>>> "ob" == oliver boehm <ol...@rwg.de> writes:

 ob> Hello, is it possible to split a long line into several lines
 ob> (e.g. with a "\" at the end of line like in make)?

It is XML and you can put your stuff in whatever way the XML parser
can accept it. Of course you can split a tag into several lines, but
you can't break the value of an attribute (I guess this is what you've
asked for).

So

<a id="something"
   attribute="value"
   attribute2="value2"
/>

is OK while

<a attribute="value\
split into two lines" />

is valid XML but will have a different result from what you want (the
linebreak and the backslash are going to be part of the attributes
value).

Stefan