Re: Bug in nxml-mode (indentation)?

[Edward O'Connor]

Eric Lilja wrote:

>>> So there doesn't seem to be any harm in making the indentation
>>> behaviour give the most aesthetically pleasing results.
>>
>> For what it's worth, nxml-mode's current indentation behavior is, to me,
>> more aesthetically pleasing than that of xml-mode.
>
> Even as it appears in my second example?

Well, consider nxml-mode's behavior with this:

<p>
  This is a test of the emergency broadcast system. <span>This is
  only a test. in the case of an actual emergency, something
  interesting would happen now.</span>
</p>

Essentially, "newline after start tag" tells nxml to treat that element
as block-level, whereas "element content immediately after start tag"
tells nxml to treat that element as inline-level. At least in the cases
of Atom, RSS, and XHTML, this heuristic pretty much nails the desired
behavior. In this example, do you really want line 2 of the paragraph to
be indented more than lines 1 and 3?


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