[xml/sgml-pkgs] Bug#718535: libxslt1.1: missing newlines with indent="no"

[Nick Wellnhofer]

On 05/08/2013 03:33, Vincent Lefevre wrote:
> This is rather confusing as the XSLT spec
>
>    http://www.w3.org/TR/xslt
>
> says: "If the indent attribute has the value yes, then the xml output
> method may output whitespace in addition to the whitespace in the
> result tree (possibly based on whitespace stripped from either the
> source document or the stylesheet) in order to indent the result
> nicely; if the indent attribute has the value no, it should not output
> any additional whitespace. The default value is no."
>                             ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>
> So, though the behavior is not really disallowed by the spec, I would
> have expected indent="no" to give the same result as no indent
> attribute. Unfortunately this is not documented, at least in the
> man pages, and this change hasn't been announced either.

I think it's a good compromise. The change is related to this bug report:

https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=652766

I agree that this should be documented somewhere. If this issue is 
important to you, I'd suggest you file a bug report at 
bugzilla.gnome.org or take it to the libxslt mailing list 
(xslt at gnome.org) where you're more likely to get answers.

Nick