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1. added one new bit to my plugin.xml 2. saved The result was a completely differently formatted plugin.xml, with sections moved around, lines moved around within a section, and in general denser xml expressions plit across several lines. Nearly every line was changed, to the point where a compare on sync between is pretty well useless because everything changed. The problem is: 1. We liked the format the way it was, were familiar with it, could navigate and change it quickly, and we formatted it that way because we found it easy to read. So now all that has been undone without us asking. 2. It makes sync/compare useless because you can't be sure of what you are committing to the repo. This is a serious problem - how can I be confident that the changes are only those I meant?
Created attachment 1250 [details] screen shot showing the large number of changes
*** Bug 22513 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
The general "incrementally change my XML but don't disturb my existing formatting" issue is a much more difficult problem than respecting whitespace in existing text. Having said that, I notice that some plugins work around the text whitespace problem by using included text, e.g., %license
Defer to 2.2. We started working on a high-quality source editing solution that will use one shared model for form and source pages, but will not finish it in time for 2.1. Will restart work on it in 2.2.
Just so I understand, you say you started work on an XML source editing solution for Eclipse for the 2.2 timeframe?
ancient history.
this problem went away in 3.0
