356951 - New serializer with options "à la tidy" for Composer

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(Composer Graveyard :: General, enhancement)

Description

[Daniel Glazman (:glazou) (not active in Mozilla any more)]

The title says it all. One of the main complaints about Nvu or Mozilla Composer
is about the serializer, its bugs, and its inability to pretty-print the source
with options "à la tidy". It's probably worthless to hack the existing serializer
since the only client will probably be the editor. So I suggest a new serializer
for that. In case we switch back to hacking the current core, I'll update
the bug's summary.

Comment 1

[Daniel Glazman (:glazou) (not active in Mozilla any more)]

Attachment: work in progress, very early stage, not for review

Comment 2

[Daniel Glazman (:glazou) (not active in Mozilla any more)]

Attachment: wip #2, not for review

Comment 3

[Daniel Glazman (:glazou) (not active in Mozilla any more)]

Attachment: wip #3, not for review

implements partially or totally following tidy options

    BreafBeforeBr
    DropEmptyParas
    Indent
    IndentAttributes
    Wrap
    AddXmlDecl
    Newline

Comment 4

[Daniel Glazman (:glazou) (not active in Mozilla any more)]

Attachment: wip #4, not for review

same as wip#3 but builds using the frozen API, thanks to bsmedberg

Comment 5

[Daniel Glazman (:glazou) (not active in Mozilla any more)]

Attachment: wip #5, not for review, barely building

Comment 6

[Daniel Kirsch]

I would like to see this in XULRunner too as it could be used in every application based on that. eg. we create XML processing applications which also creates XML documents on the fly. If the output could at least be indented for better reading, this would be a great improvement.

Comment 7

[Sylvestre Ledru [:Sylvestre]]

Composer isn't maintained anymore. Closing these bugs (no activity for a while)