Article:		XSLT as Pretty Printer
Subject:		This is so 1999...
Date:		2006-11-30 02:01:18
From:		olegtkachenko
Why not just indent="yes" ? XSLT processors always knows better. <xsl:stylesheet xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform" version="1.0"> <xsl:output method="xml" indent="yes" encoding="UTF-8"/> <xsl:template match="@*|node()"> <xsl:copy-of select="."/> </xsl:template> </xsl:stylesheet> I can see at least 3 serious problems with your stylesheet: 1. You ignore xml:space="preserve" 2. Mixed content get screwed up 3. Processing instructions go /dev/null

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• This is so 1999...
  2006-12-01 08:18:44 HewWolff
  
  > Why not just indent="yes" ? XSLT processors always knows better.

  
  Good point. The problem with indent="yes" is that you get no guarantees about the resulting format. All you know is that the XSLT processor will probably put in some white space somewhere. Saxon doesn't do a very good job in my opinion (for example, it fails the diff test I described).