[Xmlstar-devel] (no subject)

[Marcus P. <mar...@ho...>]

Hi,

I'm trying to insert one XML tag into a Visual Studio project file, using 
XmlStarlet (0.9.1 Win32 binaries), and my problem is that I can't get 
XmlStarlet to preserve the original formatting (that's what the -P and -S 
options are for, right?).

Example:

$ (echo "<a"; echo "   foo='1'>"; echo "</a>")
<a
   foo='1'>
</a>

$ (echo "<a"; echo "   foo='1'>"; echo "</a>") | xml ed -P -S -O -i /a -t 
attr -n bar -v 2
<a foo="1" bar="2">
</a>


So as you see, XmlStarlet puts all the attributes of the "a" -tag on the 
same line.

The real problem is, that VS stores multi-line values in it's configuration 
file, and XmlStarlet removes newlines from the attribute value. Example:

$ (echo "<a foo=\"1"; echo "2..\">"; echo "</a>")
<a foo="1
2..">
</a>

$ (echo "<a foo=\"1"; echo "2..\">"; echo "</a>") | xml ed -P -S -O -i /a -t 
attr -n bar -v 2
<a foo="1 2.." bar="2">
</a>

Any ideas?

Best regards,
-Marcus.

email: marcus_picasso at hotmail dot com

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