[news.eclipse.webtools] Re: XML formatting

[David Carver <dcarver@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

adam hardy wrote:
> I'm writing XDoc documentation and I'm using the XML editor.
>
> My problem is that I have code extracts in my documentation, and I don't 
> want the XML editor to reformat the code blocks (which will remove the 
> CRLFs and destroy the code readability).
>
> Is there a tag I can wrap them in which the XML editor format operation 
> will ignore?
>
> Sorry if this is the wrong forum - it seems the most suitable on the 
> list of newsgroups. If not, which would be the right place?

Nick mentioned using CDATA sections, which is one way, the other way to 
do this is to add the xml:space="perserve" attribute to to your element 
that contains the code that you don't want to format.


Dave