XML output on separate lines

[Gasoline]

Hi,

I have generated an XML-file with line breaks after each node according to Knowledge base solution P110416. (Inserting a text node containing a linefeed character after each node).

The generated xml file also has a doctype declaration and a stylesheet reference tag. These are still output on the same line as the root node.

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-15" ?>
<!DOCTYPE MyDoc SYSTEM "MyDoc.dtd"><?xml-stylesheet type='text/xsl' href='MyDoc.xsl'?><MyDoc>
<Node1>text</Node1>
<Node2>
<SubNode></SubNode>
</Node2>
</MyDoc>

Can someone please tell me how to output the doctype tag and the stylesheet reference tag on separate lines?

Thanks!

 

[tamhas]

The basic answer is don't do that, any of it. XML is not a line-oriented protocol and trying to make it pretty print is likely to foul up the conversation as much as anything else. Get yourself a copy of Stylus Studio or some lesser tool for looking at the XML with attractive formatting and indentation and get those line feeds out of there.

 

[Gasoline]

Thanks for the quick reply Tamhas!

Unfortunately, it is a requirement from a customer to recieve the file with each node on a new line. So even if this is something I should not do, is there a way to do it?

 

[tamhas]

Inform the customer that this is *not* according to the XML standard. Some tools will accept it, but it is non-standard and not the way XML is intended to work.