Re: Bug in nxml-mode (indentation)?

[Eric Lilja]

Mark A. Hershberger wrote:
Thanks for the reply Mr Hershberger,

> Eric Lilja <address@hidden> writes:
>
> > Is the nxml-mode way of indenting vs xml-mode in this particular
> > example to be considered a bug?
>
> Space can be significant (i.e. can convey meaning) in XML and there is
> no way to figure out what the space means just from the snippets you've
> given.  Depending on the application, the following XML could be
> considered identical or completely different:

Convey meaning? To whom? The parser? I had no idea. I just know that 
xml-mode and nxml-mode indents the example file differently and I like 
the old mode does better. Are you saying it affects validation and what 
you get when you parse the file?

>     <foo>bar</foo>
> or
>     <foo>
>       bar
>     </foo>
> or
>     <foo>
>     bar
>     </foo>
>
> If you want to adjust the indention of nxml-mode, look at
> nxml-child-indent and nxml-attribute-indent.  Unfortunately, I don't see
> anything to adjust indenting of lines that just contain text.
>
> If you want to look at adding this functionality, the best place to
> start looks like it would be the function
> nxml-compute-indent-from-previous-line.

Well, since I'm not an elisp wizard I simply do not possess the know-how 
to "fix" it. :( I just thought I should report it this finding. 
(Actually, I have found another case where indentation differs and the 
old xml-mode, to me, is more pleasing.)

Oh, and btw, you don't have CC me I read the list through my newsreader 
(using gmane).

- Eric