[michaeljt]

Hello,

Since I couldn't find a bug tracker, I thought I would report these two issues I found with Serna free here. The second is probably user error, and the first, while not critical, is a show-stopper for me, as it makes it impractical to use Serna free to update files kept in a shared version control system and also updated by other people using different tools.

The first issue is that when I edit an XML file with Serna free, it touches and reformats the whole file, not just the bits I changed, in ways that are not significant for the XML, but are to a version control system (in particular, it changes the placement of spaces and removes line break characters).

The second is that I was unable to input a line feed character (0x000a) using Serna free. I assume that I just didn't find how to do it though.

Regards and thanks for releasing such an impressive product.

Michael

[apg]

Michael,
Serna formats the file according to the whitespace stripping policy specified in the stylesheet (xslreserve-space, xsl:strip-space). If you want Serna to keep spaces everywhere as-is, you can use <xsl:strip-space="*">. For most document types, whitespaces betwen elements are insignificant in most cases.
Also, Serna does consistent formatting - so if you save document formatted by Serna to text-based CMS, another revision of the document will have little difference.

Of course you can insert newline character - either in whitespace-preserved area (in element which is listed in xslreserve-space, and for which XSL-FO whitespace treatment policy is 'preserve' too). Please look to the Interactive Example stylesheet, for the template of 'pre' element, as an example.