Re: Authoring Tools WAS: Switching to XML

> > What we need is something that does not change regions of the file
> > that the user did not intend to modify.  I think
> > horizonal-white-space-only changes could be worked around if the
> > user is careful to use diff --ignore-space-change when submitting
> > the patch, but I suspect that an editor that thinks it can mangle
> > whitespace will also figure that it can change line boundaries, and
> > then diff will never be able to extract any signal from that noise.
>
> Could post-processing with tidy clean this up?  I'm pretty sure that
> tidy's output is deterministic, at least if the editor hasn't mangled
> tags...
>

Yes tidy makes things pretty darn clean. However, there is one thing
that it won't do and that is remove extra tags. Thus something like
OpenOffice is still a no-op.

Joshua D. Drake

> Cheers,
> D
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