- Inheritance
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< REXML::Formatters::Default
< Object
Pretty-prints an XML
document. This destroys whitespace in text nodes and will insert carriage
returns and indentations.
TODO: Add an option to print attributes on new lines
Attributes
| Name |
Visibility |
R/W |
Description |
| compact |
public |
RW |
If compact is set to true, then the formatter will attempt to use as little
space as possible
|
| width |
public |
RW |
The width of a page. Used for formatting text
|
Methods
Class
| Visibility |
Signature |
| public |
new ( indentation=2, ie_hack=false ) |
Instance
Class Method Detail
new( indentation=2, ie_hack=false )
Create a new pretty printer.
| output: | An object implementing ’<<(String)’, to which the output will be
written.
|
| indentation: | An integer greater than 0. The indentation of each level will be this
number of spaces. If this is < 1, the behavior of this object is
undefined. Defaults to 2.
|
| ie_hack: | If true, the printer will insert whitespace before closing empty tags,
thereby allowing Internet Explorer‘s feeble XML parser to function. Defaults to false.
|
Instance Method Detail
write_cdata( node, output)
write_comment( node, output)
write_document( node, output )
write_element(node, output)
write_text( node, output )