Xml indent problem

[@cl]

hello ,everybody

I'm a newer to xml,
and I need to format and indent xml in a textpanel,

as when input is
<root>
<node1>
<node11/>
</node1>
<node2/>
</root>

and need to put a button to format it ,let it shows like
<root>
<node1>
<node11/>
</node1>
<node2/>
</root>

I used the java1.5 and Eclipse platform , and not sure if I should use
the XSL .

regrads,
@CL

[Joe Kesselman]

Well, XSLT could be used, with a stylesheet that has its xsl:output
directive set to indent (and possibly additional implementation-specific
settings to say how much indentation to use; Xalan defaults to indenting
by 0, for historical reasons). Or you could hand-code a stylesheet to
track nesting depth and accomplish the same thing.

But I submit that you probably don't really want to do this. Changing
the indentation of XML risks changing the _MEANING_ of the XML, since
the indentation becomes part of the document's content.

What I would recommend, if you really want a tree view of your XML, is a
real XML viewer. There are many Java implementations thereof available;
it's quite easy for a Java hacker to make the standard Java tree views
run against a DOM back-end.

[@cl]

Well ,I see.
I don't really want to change the content of the xml file,
and just to find some nodes easily.
And I had found some tools to do it for me.

Best regards,
Richard

Joe Kesselman 写�：

But I submit that you probably don't really want to do this. Changing
the indentation of XML risks changing the _MEANING_ of the XML, since
the indentation becomes part of the document's content.