From: Joshua D. Drake <jd@commandprompt.com>
To: David Fetter <david@fetter.org>
Cc: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Cc: Scott Marlowe <smarlowe@g2switchworks.com>
Cc: josh@agliodbs.com, pgsql-docs@postgresql.org, Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us>
Cc: Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net>
Cc: Guillaume Lelarge <guillaume@lelarge.info>
Subject: Re: Authoring Tools WAS: Switching to XML
Date: Thu, 14 Dec 2006 22:39:24 -0800
Message-ID: <1166164764.18226.53.camel@localhost.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20061215061516.GB15481@fetter.org>
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<20061215061516.GB15481@fetter.org>
> > What we need is something that does not change regions of the file
> > that the user did not intend to modify. I think
> > horizonal-white-space-only changes could be worked around if the
> > user is careful to use diff --ignore-space-change when submitting
> > the patch, but I suspect that an editor that thinks it can mangle
> > whitespace will also figure that it can change line boundaries, and
> > then diff will never be able to extract any signal from that noise.
>
> Could post-processing with tidy clean this up? I'm pretty sure that
> tidy's output is deterministic, at least if the editor hasn't mangled
> tags...
>
Yes tidy makes things pretty darn clean. However, there is one thing
that it won't do and that is remove extra tags. Thus something like
OpenOffice is still a no-op.
Joshua D. Drake
> Cheers,
> D
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