Hi Eric,

Two remarks:

1) When I try this on the following xslt document

<?xml version="1.0"?> 
<xsl:stylesheet xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform"
version="1.0"> 
     <xsl:template match="/"> 
     </xsl:template> 
</xsl:stylesheet> 

.., the result is:

<?xml version="1.0"?> 
<xsl:stylesheet xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform"
version="1.0"> 
<xsl:template match="/"> 
</xsl:template> 
</xsl:stylesheet> 

Eg., template element children of the stylesheet element are not
indented.

2) Would it be possible to add auto-formatting for source XML
documents to the next version?
Actually, I think it makes much more sense to have this for XML than
for XSLT since you're usually in control of the XSLT yourself, while
sometimes the source XML is machine-generated.

What's the reason for the formatting limitation you mentioned? It
would be very easy to implement a formatter without such a limitation
by just having a visitor traverse the parsed xml. Indeed, a XSLT sheet
can be written that does this in a couple of lines.

Regards,

tt

>  Pretty-printing should work.  Simply select the XML or XSLT,
>  and run the Edit|Advanced|Format Selection (Ctrl-K Ctrl-F) command.
>  This only works in an XSLT edit window, not an XML edit window.
>  But it will work on any kind of XML text, not just XSLT.
> 
>  One thing this command won't do is separate two contiguous tags
>  on the same line, as in
> 
>  <element_1_with_lots_of_attributes a1='v1' ...
a1000='v1000'> <element_2 ...>
> 
>  For this, you need to do a search-and-replace of '\>\<' with
>  '>\n< with selection on before carrying out the Format command.
>  I think this could easily be automated with a macro to call the
>  two commands, something like:
> 
>  Edit.Replace "\>\<", ">\n", /r, /sel
>  Edit.FormatSelection
> 
>  - Eric
> 
>  On Tue, Jan 07, 2003 at 08:54:51PM +0100, Taras Tielkes wrote:
>  > Hi,
>  >
>  > Is it possible to auto-format (eg. pretty-print) xml (or xsl) in
the
>  > Visual XSLT 1.6 editor?
>  >
>  > Sometimes I paste (messy, unformated) program-generated xml into
the
>  > editor window, and it would really help to have such a command.
>  >
>  > Regards,
>  >
>  > tt
>  >
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