Re: [WebMacro-user] Whitespace gobbling

[Keats K. <ke...@xa...>]

Hey Tim,

AFAIK the Wiki doc represents the current whitespace handling.  Can you 
give any specific examples of where it is wrong?

Keats

Tim Pizey wrote:

>Hi gang, 
>
>It is great that there is a bit more activity on the list. 
>
>I have been using WM for java code generation, and 
>it has continued to work very nicely.
>
>However I am having pain with whitespace handling. 
>
>Up until 0.98p1 whitespace gobbling was perfect, then just a few 
>versions before 1.0 there was an urgent, and I am sure genuine, 
>need to break it, (if I remember correctly so that CSV files could be 
>generated cleanly). 
>
>The documentation at http://www.webmacro.org/WhiteSpace still refers 
>to the oldskool rules.
>
>Those rules worked perfectly for clean and elegant HTML and similar 
>code generation, which is the central use case for WM. 
>
>Can the default be returned to the 0.98p1 rules and the current 
>incomprehensible rules become pluggable please?
>
>yours
>TimP
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