Re: [rfc-i] looking for a volunteer to write a simple script

Joe Touch <touch@strayalpha.com> Sat, 13 July 2019 00:16 UTC

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> On Jul 12, 2019, at 10:49 AM, Julian Reschke <julian.reschke@gmx.de> wrote:
> 
> On 12.07.2019 19:30, Joe Touch wrote:
>> ...
>>> I assume that the tool is supposed to preserve whitespace, line breaks
>>> etc? This essentially rules out running the input through an XML parser...
>> That shouldn't be necessary.
>> Joe
> 
> I assume that will run before AUTH48.
> 
> It would be *very* unfriendly to the document editors to generate a huge
> diff just because a tool felt like reformatting everything.

I was indicating that we don’t need to use an XML parser.

It’s trivial to retain formatting to minimize diff output. The code I gave does that already.

Joe
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