245868 - When using XSLT to transform an XML file, result is not prettyprinted

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(Core :: XSLT, enhancement)

Description

[Christian :Biesinger (don't email me, ping me on IRC)]

when I transform xml->xml using xslt, then the result is shown like with style
*{display:inline}, and not prettyprinted. would be nice if it were prettyprinted.

Comment 1

[Axel Hecht]

I would be fine with WONTFIXing this.
It would be a HUGE architectural hassle with only a small additional value.

Comment 2

[Jonas Sicking (:sicking) No longer reading bugmail consistently]

agreed, while neat and all i don't see that it adds any value. Why would you do
xml->undisplayable-xml transforms through a PI anyway in mozilla? If you are
doing xml->xml transforms in js you could always apply the prettyprint
stylesheet on the result and display that manually.

Comment 3

[Christian :Biesinger (don't email me, ping me on IRC)]

(In reply to comment #2)
> agreed, while neat and all i don't see that it adds any value. Why would you do
> xml->undisplayable-xml transforms through a PI anyway in mozilla?

because I had to do a transformation of xml->undisplayable-xml
and I decided to use mozilla to test it, since I knew it supported xslt.

ah well. would've been nice.

Comment 4

[Jonas Sicking (:sicking) No longer reading bugmail consistently]

you should be able to use js and do two transforms where the second one is the
prettyprint. Another alternative would be to make mozilla apply xslt on the
result of an xslt transform if the result contains an xslt PI. I think we have,
or had, a bug on that.

Comment 5

[Christian :Biesinger (don't email me, ping me on IRC)]

*** Bug 279633 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***