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From: Xavier Neys <neysx@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] xml
Date: Tue, 13 Apr 2004 20:01:59
Message-Id: 407C4735.50307@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] xml by Drake Wyrm
1 Drake Wyrm wrote:
2 > On Tue, 2004-04-13, 12:44:46 -0700, in <20040413194446.GA15420@×××××××××××××.com>, Drake Wyrm <wyrm@×××××.com> wrote:
3 >
4 >>On Tue, 2004-04-13, 09:32:19 +0100, in
5 >><20040413083218.GC3292@g.o>, tigger@g.o wrote:
6 >>
7 >>>On Tue, Apr 13, 2004 at 10:46:23AM +0200, Xavier Neys wrote:
8 >>>
9 >>>><tabs> are evil in the first place. The only sure way to obtain and
10 >>>>keep a given number of spaces is to use spaces. Why isn't that
11 >>>>obvious?
12 >>
13 >>I think sejo was trying to request that we use tabs to format the XML
14 >>source for better readability and maintainability, not that we use tabs
15 >>to format the rendered document.
16 >
17 >
18 > Nevermind about that one. He actually *was* asking that we stop using
19 > tabs. Must need more coffee...
20 >
21
22 No big deal but I wonder where he got the idea that tabs in the xml source
23 will corrupt the html version. It should not be the case.
24 Anyway, indenting the xml source is covered in our coding style at
25 http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/xml-guide.xml#doc_chap3
26
27 --
28 / Xavier Neys
29 \_ Gentoo Documentation Project
30 / French & Internationalisation Lead
31 \ http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en
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