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Improve formatting of Processing Instructions #240

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anthonyvdotbe opened this issue Apr 18, 2020 · 5 comments · Fixed by eclipse/lemminx#670
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Improve formatting of Processing Instructions #240

anthonyvdotbe opened this issue Apr 18, 2020 · 5 comments · Fixed by eclipse/lemminx#670
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@anthonyvdotbe
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The formatter formats an XML declaration as follows:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" ?>

But tools such as Maven generate XML files with an XML declaration as follows (i.e. without a trailing space before the closing tag):

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>

This is particularly annoying, because the XML declaration is constantly changed: to version B each time Maven rewrites the XML file (e.g. when doing a release), and then again to version A when the formatter formats the file.

So I think the best option is to format XML declarations as follows:

  • if there's already trailing whitespace before the closing tag, collapse it to a single space character
  • else, don't add any whitespace
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I'm fine with this suggestion. @fbricon what do you think?

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fbricon commented Apr 22, 2020

how about xml.format.spaceAfterAttribute or xml.format.spaceAfterLastAttribute?

@fbricon fbricon added this to the 0.12.0 milestone Apr 22, 2020
@fbricon fbricon changed the title Improve formatting of XML declarations Improve formatting of Processing Instructions Apr 22, 2020
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After discussion, we should never generate a space before the end of processing instruction. If some user will need that, we will introduce a new settings for that like @fbricon suggested. But for the moment keep simply and don't generate this extra space.

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Sounds good to me, thanks.

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Fixed with eclipse/lemminx#670

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