Re: Use nxml mode, but without the auto formatting

[Harry Putnam]

Yuri Khan <yuri.v.khan@gmail.com> writes:

> On Sun, Mar 23, 2014 at 9:40 AM, Harry Putnam <reader@newsguy.com> wrote:
>
>> This happens in  Xming  '*.launch' files on windows, for me.
>>
>> These files are created if you use the xming gui to setup a launcher
>> for a remote program.
>>
>> If I let emacs format the code then the code doesn't work to launch
>> anything.  If I leave it in a
>> single line, it does.
> […]
>>
>> Here is what happens if I hit <enter> after the last '>'.
>> ,----
>> |    <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
>> |    <XLaunch xmlns="http://www.straightrunning.com/XmingNotes";
>> |             xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance";
>> |             xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.straightrunning.com/XmingNotes
>> |                                 XLaunch.xsd" WindowMode="MultiWindow"
>> |             ClientMode="StartProgram" Program="xterm -g 84x36 -fg linen -bg
>> |                                                DarkSlateGrey -cr Skyblue
>> |                                                -fn
>> |                                                
>> dec-terminal-medium-r-normal--14-140-75-75-c-80-iso8859-1"
>> |             ClientStart="PuTTY" RemoteHost="192.168.1.42"
>> |             RemoteUser="reader" Clipboard="true"/>
>> `----
>
> You might want to also file a bug report with Xming. As an XML file,
> the reformatted version is equivalent to the original, so the software
> must treat them identically.
>
> Also, see what happens if you remove all line breaks in attribute
> values. (Not that it makes any difference with regard to XML
> well-formedness, validity or semantics — any XML processor that treats
> the original version, your reformatted version or my reformatted
> version below differently is broken.)
>
> ,----
> |    <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
> |    <XLaunch xmlns="http://www.straightrunning.com/XmingNotes";
> |             xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance";
> |             xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.straightrunning.com/XmingNotes
> XLaunch.xsd"
> |             WindowMode="MultiWindow"
> |             ClientMode="StartProgram"
> |             Program="xterm -g 84x36 -fg linen -bg DarkSlateGrey -cr
> Skyblue -fn dec-terminal-medium-r-normal--14-140-75-75-c-80-iso8859-1"
> |             ClientStart="PuTTY" RemoteHost="192.168.1.42"
> |             RemoteUser="reader" Clipboard="true"/>
> `----
>
> (OK, I’m not entirely confident that my email client won’t re-wrap it
> but you get the idea.)
>
> Also, the xsi:schemaLocation attribute value seems to be wrong — it
> specifies two schema URIs, the first of which does not resolve to an
> XML schema definition document (but to a redirect to an ordinary HTML
> page), and the other is just a filename with no indication of how to
> locate it. On the other hand, the URI
> http://www.straightrunning.com/XmingNotes/XLaunch.xsd (after replacing
> space with a slash) is valid and resolves to a schema definition. I
> don’t see how this could affect the processing of the document,
> however.

I haven't experimented further yet, but it was not clear from your
helpful response if you have actually tried the unformatted and
formatted versions and found they both work, or not.