Re: nXML mode maintenance and enhancement

[Yuri Khan]

On Wed, May 23, 2018 at 10:03 PM N. Raghavendra <address@hidden>
wrote:

> > There is not and cannot be One True Way to indent XML, for all users and
> > uses of nXML.

> Sure, the user can always change it.  Every mode comes with a default
> indentation style.  I am only suggesting that the default indentation
> rules of nXML conform to those of the SGML and PSGML modes.

And I’m suggesting that text markup languages constitute a small portion of
all XML-based formats, and thus the default rules might be good enough for
the majority of the formats.

> > [Customizing indentation] involves: hooking ‘rng-schema-change-hook’;
> > in the hook function, looking at ‘rng-current-schema’ to see if its
‘caddr’
> > is "html"; and, if so, pointing ‘indent-line-function’ at my own
function
> > that pretty much has to reimplement the whole of ‘nxml-indent-line’ from
> > scratch, in about 250 lines of Elisp.

> I wonder if you can share your code here; perhaps I or someone else can
> try to adapt it into a general function in nXML.

Why not. Warning, personal-use-quality code ahead.

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