[Webmacro-devel] Whitespace :(

[Marc P. <ma...@an...>]

Guys,

I know this is such a seriously unpopular subject... but WM is really very 
horrible to use to produce nicely formatted text output. The whitespace 
eating is just so hard to work with.

WM's currently rules are generally fine for HTML due to the filtering of 
consecutive whitespace inherent in HTML rendering, but for text output it 
is really horrible.

For example I am trying to get nice SQL statements generated from metadata, 
without commas on their own line, with spaces after commas (if I can get 
them on the same line), with spaces before and after optional NOT NULL but 
without them being on their own line.

It's just nasty, I'm not sure I can even achieve the formatting I want, 
which is really worrying.

I'm sure you are all well aware of this - but putting my "average joe 
webmonkey" hat on here, I'd be smashing my screen to pieces with a hammer 
by now at the -apparent-stupidity of WM's whitespace handling.

Marc

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