Hi, Taras,

We actually hard-wired this behavior into the Visual XSLT Format
command, when several others pointed out that most XSLT programmers
prefer not to indent the top-layer XSLT tags inside the stylesheet.

We'll make this a user-configurable option in a future release.

As for pretty-printing in the XML window, we've assumed most 
people using XSLT are content to use the Microsoft XML editor
for their XML documents.  Maybe we need a brief show of hands
here to gauge interest in an ActiveState-written XML language
service to provide features like auto-indent, schema-based
code-completion, etc.

- Eric

On Tue, Jan 07, 2003 at 09:48:17PM +0100, Taras Tielkes wrote:
>  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