[news.eclipse.webtools] Re: XML formatting

[adam hardy <adam.hardy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

David Carver on 14/05/08 18:24, wrote:
> 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.

The CDATA works well, but the xml:space didn't work until I spotted the typo! 
That's a very interesting attribute and it makes me wonder how many more useful 
attributes there are like that - can you recommend a good xml documentation website?

Thanks,
Adam