Paste xml text into a pre style and preserve indents?

TechnicalDisaster · Post by **TechnicalDisaster** » Wed Jun 22, 2011 9:38 am

I hope the group here can help me with two questions:

1. I want to copy xml code from a text editor and paste it into Flare while preserving the indents. Flare is taking my text and left justifying it all. For example:

This is what I copy from a text editor:

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<?xml version ="1.0"?>
<msg>
	<head>
		<RoundTripInfo>64 bytes of transaction information</ RoundTripInfo >
	</head>
	<body>
		<HostIdentifier>
			<SiteIdent>00000000811000000000</SiteIdent>
		</HostIdentifier>
		<AddSubscriber>
			<BSSubscriberKey>1234567890123456</BSSubscriberKey>
			
		</AddSubscriber>
	</body>
</msg>

And this is what it looks like when I paste it into Flare:

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<?xml version ="1.0"?>
<msg>
<head>
<RoundTripInfo>64 bytes of transaction information</ RoundTripInfo >
</head>
<body>
<HostIdentifier>
<SiteIdent>00000000811000000000</SiteIdent>
</HostIdentifier>
<AddSubscriber>
<BSSubscriberKey>1234567890123456</BSSubscriberKey>
</AddSubscriber>
</body>
</msg>

Is their a way to preserve the indents?

2. The default tab space for <pre> is too large. When I manually add a tab space into the style to reformat it closer to original, the tab is twice as deep as the original code. How do I set the tab space in a style?

Thanks for any help!

Post by **Andrew** » Wed Jun 22, 2011 10:09 am

1) the way to preserve the indents is to use a <pre> tag, or to use the whitespace property (with the pre value). This will result in the problem you described in 2).

2) Did a brief search, and this is the best page I could come up with. It has links leading to some other interesting areas you could explore. I don't know that any of it will give you exactly what you need, but it may help.

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