Hello Tony,

In Oxygen version 17.1 you can use one attribute condition inside the 'Preserve space' entries. So an entry like: *[@linefeed-treatment='preserve'] should now work.

The XPath expressions can accept one of these type of attribute conditions (default attribute values are not taken into account):

All the above restrictions and limitations are because we want these expressions to run as fast as possible.

Best regards,
Alex
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Alex Jitianu
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On 8/27/2015 2:30 PM, Tony Graham wrote:
Is there a way that a framework can make oXygen not reindent elements
that have 'linefeed-treatment="preserve"'?

http://www.oxygenxml.com/doc/versions/17.0/ug-editor/#topics/preferences-editor-format-xml.html
says that elements can be added to the 'Preserve space' list, but
"*[@linefeed-treatment='preserve']" isn't a 'simple node test' and seems
to be being silently ignored.

Even if it did work, it can't be set by the 'focheck' framework.

(Separately, the ability to edit an item in the list, rather than having
to make a new item based on an existing item then deleting the old item,
seems to me to be useful.)

http://www.oxygenxml.com/doc/versions/17.0/ug-editor/#topics/format-and-indent-xml.html
says that it can be done with CSS using 'white-space: pre', but

*[linefeed-treatment=preserve] {
    white-space: pre;
}

is having no effect on Text mode 'Format and Indent Element' results.

(Separately again, is there a key combination to insert a line break
that doesn't also insert indenting white-space?)

Regards,


Tony Graham.