Re: [docbook-apps] Remove whitespace between closing XML tag and dot

Hello Giuseppe,

thanks again. Worked fine. In case someone has the same problem, here is how I strip out the whitespace with Apache Ant:

	<target name="remove-space" depends="xinclude">

		<replaceregexp flags="g">

			<regexp pattern="(&gt;)(\s+)([\.,])" />

			<substitution _expression_="\1\3" />

			<fileset dir="${outputtmp.dir}/">

				<include name="**/*" />

			</fileset>

		</replaceregexp>

		<replaceregexp flags="g">

			<regexp pattern="(\w)(\s+)(&lt;/)" />

			<substitution _expression_="\1\3" />

			<fileset dir="${outputtmp.dir}/">

				<include name="**/*" />

			</fileset>

		</replaceregexp>

	</target>

Best regards, Lars

2011/11/11 Lars Vogel <>

Hi Giueseppe,

thanks for the answer. I like proposal number 2.) which seems most practical to me.

Also I didn't know that  oxygen is Eclipse tooling. I need to look at it.

Thanks again, Lars

2011/11/11 Giuseppe Bonelli <>

Hi Lars,

what you describe happens often, depending on the pretty print

algorithm used by the xml editor.

I think you have three options:

1. if you can use xslt2.0, you can have regular expressions during the

transformation

2. you can use a regex on the whole xml file treated as a string

3 you can use an xml editor with a smarter pretty print algorithm. I

personally use the oxygen eclipse plugin, but this is not free. When

you format the xml using oxygen the spaces in mixed content nodes is

preserved (I have just made a simple test on your example and no space

before the period is inserted after formatting the source).

Hope this helps.

__peppo

On Fri, Nov 11, 2011 at 11:19 AM, Lars Vogel <> wrote:

> Hello,

> I use Eclipse as my XML editor and this really works well for me except one

> thing. Unfortunately the XML formatter in Eclipse adds a space between a

> closing tag and a dot. If its not a dot I actually would like that it adds

> this space.

> Example:

> Call method <code>test()</code>.

> Would become>

> Call method  <code>test()</code> .[Space after</code>]

> Is there a way to tell the XSLT conversion to remove spaces between closing

> XML tags and dots? If yes, it would be great to get some pointers how to

> implement this.

> Best regards, Lars

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