Really no way to pretty print XML???

I wonder if there is really no way to pretty print a DOM, using Java's standard API (http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.4.2/docs/api/index.html).
What I've tried is (assume having a org.w3c.dom.Document instance doc:
TransformerFactory tf = TransformerFactory.newInstance();
Transformer transformer = tf.newTransformer();
transformer.setOutputProperty(OutputKeys.METHOD, "xml");
transformer.setOutputProperty("encoding", encoding);
transformer.setOutputProperty(OutputKeys.INDENT,"yes");
transformer.setOutputProperty("{http://xml.apache.org/xslt}indent-amount", "3" );
DOMSource source = new DOMSource(doc);
FileOutputStream os = new FileOutputStream(file);
StreamResult result = new StreamResult(os);
transformer.transform(source,result);which gives, e.g. something like
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?>
<documentData>
<Asset assetID="229609"/>
<Picturedescription>
<Asset assetID="229609"/>
</Picturedescription>
</documentData>which is not even proper indent. I can't believe that there is no way in pretty prenting an XML document, using Java's Standard API....
Does anybody know more about it?
Urs

Have you tried this:
StringWriter sw = new StringWriter();
org.apache.xml.serialize.OutputFormat outFormat = new org.apache.xml.
serialize.OutputFormat();
outFormat.setIndenting(true);
outFormat.setIndent(4);
org.apache.xml.serialize.XMLSerializer xmlser = new org.apache.xml.serialize.XMLSerializer(sw, outFormat);
try {
xmlser.serialize(your_document); //replace your_document with reference to document you want to serialize
catch (Exception ex1) {
}

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create or replace function MakeDynamicBrowser(
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#1:
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SID = 174
SERIAL# = 55746
AUDSID = 2964800
PADDR = 000000043B430AF0
USER# = 33
USERNAME = USER
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OWNERID = 2147483644
TADDR =
LOCKWAIT =
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SERVER = DEDICATED
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SCHEMANAME = USER
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TERMINAL = pts/42
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TYPE = USER
SQL_ADDRESS = 00000003FD230BB8
SQL_HASH_VALUE = 2822516303
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PREV_CHILD_NUMBER = 0
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CURRENT_QUEUE_DURATION = 0
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news:[email protected]...
> There is no XML or MXML formatting built-in to
FlexBuilder or Eclipse.
>
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>
> There are probably other way to do this. Does anybody
have other
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>
> Mark Shepherd
> FlexBuilder Engineering
>
>
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>> Our MXML is getting a bit messy. (we also need a
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>>
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>>
>> 2. Is there a publicly available plug-in
>>
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>>
>>

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<z:column name="type" header="<%=zcl_bsp_util=>dtel_text_s('EDI_TTYP')%>"
            listPos="10"/>
<z:column name="text" listPos="20"></z:column>
</z:table>
(b) Certain HTML formatting tags like I, B, etc. should not be added to the stack but be treated inline.
(c) HTML-attribute names should be converted to lower case, the attribute values should be quoted.
(d) Like for BSP-elements, there should be a threshold after which the attributes should appear in separate lines. Instead of a certain maximum "number of attributes", this could also be a maximum number of characters per line.
(e) Scripting Tags (<% ... %>) should start at a new line, if the content contains new-lines.
(f) Evaluation Scripting (<%= ... %>) should be inline, if they are contained within text nodes (and not within HTML oder BSP element nodes).
(g) The Pretty Printer should be parametrizable (with parameters like indent-depth,... ).
2.) Exits?
Of course, one could always use an external HTML editor and write an add-on for that editor which produces the desired result. Or one could take the view content into the clipboard, paste it into a plain text editor like UltraEdit or TextPad which allows external commands, apply an external, self-written pretty printer to it and then paste the result back into the View. But it would be easier to use the "Pretty Printer" button directly to get the result. Therefore the question arises at which point the standard Pretty Printer Functionality could be modified or extended.
I didn't find an exit. But the pretty-print itself is doubly-decoupled in the standard which minimizes the number of points where an extension has to be made:
2.a) First decoupling point: The Fcode handler method pretty_printer_ext( ) in cl_o2_page is calling
dynamically a method in cl_o2_co2_processor:
* call pretty printer
create object pp type ('CL_O2_CO2_PROCESSOR').
appl_str = me->pagekey-applname.
page_str = me->pagekey-pagekey.
try.
      CALL METHOD pp->('PRETTY_PRINT')
        EXPORTING
          indent              = 2
          ATTRIBUTE_NORMALIZE = 'X'
          ATTRIBUTE_THRESHOLD = 2
          BSP_UNFORMATTED     = source
          appl                = appl_str
          page                = page_str
        IMPORTING
          test_ok             = test_ok
          BSP_FORMATTED       = pp_source.
    catch cx_o2_co2_exception into o2ex.
2.b) Second decoupling point:
The method pretty_print() of class cl_o2_co2_processor (fancy names, by the way. It seems that many former chemistry students had joined the BSP team ),
there is a second delegation, to a local class, as follows:
data pretty type ref to LCL_BSP_PRETTY_PRINT.
pretty = LCL_BSP_PRETTY_PRINT=>getInstance( processor = me ).
The real logic for doing the Pretty Print, finally, is performed in this local class.
3.) Implementation.
Since, up to my knowledge, there is no HTML parser in the ABAP world,
the implementation could be based on existing HTML Parsers, like the Perl module Parser::HTML, or the Java package http://htmlparser.sourceforge.net/ . The pretty printer could then be called as external OS command.
Are there any ideas out there? Or is there somebody who already worked in this direction?
Regards,
Rüdiger

For those who are interested. I found out that the Dave Ragget's classic "HTML Tidy" (see <a href="http://tidy.sourceforge.net/">http://tidy.sourceforge.net/</a> ) is available in ABAP! There is a class CL_HTMLTIDY (at least here in my SAP_BASIS 700 system) which wraps calls of HTML Tidy by kernel modules.
The class is undocumented, but there are 2 OSS notes of this year for it, so it might well be that it is alive.
HTML Tidy can surely not directly be used for Pretty Printing BSP views, but for designing test cases or for doing things like HTML parsing, it might be a helpful tool.

ABAP Mapping Pretty Print

Hi Everybody,
I have an issue with linefeed in ABAP Mapping.The ouput document generated by ABAP Mapping is as follow:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" ?<Header Node><T_H><SEND_ID value="XYZ"/>
<REC_ID value="PQR"/>
<DATE value="2007"/>
</T_H>
<O_H><L_NO value="252517"/>
<W_NO value="298"/>
<U_NO value="298"/>
</O_H>
</Header Node>
If we can see the above payload, i have the <Header Node> coming in the same line as that of the utf-8 and also the subnode <T_H> starting in the same line and its first field <SEND_ID > in the same line.The same is repeating for the second subnode <O_H>. I want to do a pretty print for this payload.I have used the method <b>set_pretty_print( )</b> in the ABAP Mapping, but there is no effect of this on the output.
To make it clear let me give the required output Xml
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" ?
<Header Node>
<T_H>
<SEND_ID value="XYZ"/>
<REC_ID value="PQR"/>
<DATE value="2007"/>
</T_H>
<O_H>
<L_NO value="252517"/>
<W_NO value="298"/>
<U_NO value="298"/>
</O_H>
</Header Node>
Can anybody help me out on this.
Thanks & Regards,
Zabiula

Insert a new line character as per the ABAP rules in the generated XML. It is normally "/n" for microsoft based languages. Not sure what it is in ABAP. May be an ABAPer must be able to help you.
VJ

XmlDataProvider .... is gone completely in my Xaml file. Why? How many different ways to deal with xml data source through WPF

I followed a procedure described in a book.
1. insert "Inventory.xml" file to a project "WpfXmlDataBinding" .
2. add the XML data source through the data panel of "blend for 2013", named it "InventoryXmlDataStore" and store it in the current document.
3. dragged and droppped the nodes from the Data panel onto the artboard.
Then I checked my Xaml file against the one provided by the book
Xaml file by the book:
<Window.Resources>
<XmlDataProvider x:Key="InventoryDataSource"
Source="\Inventory.xml"
d:IsDataSource="True"/>

<DataTemplate x:Key="ProductTemplate">
<StackPanel>
<TextBlock Text="{Binding XPath=@ProductID}"/>
<TextBlock Text="{Binding XPath=Cost}"/>
<TextBlock Text="{Binding XPath=Description}"/>
<CheckBox IsChecked="{Binding XPath=HotItem}"/>
<TextBlock Text="{Binding XPath=Name}"/>
</StackPanel>
</DataTemplate>
</Window.Resources>
<Grid>
<ListBox HorizontalAlignment="Left"
ItemTemplate="{DynamicResource ProductTemplate}"
ItemsSource="{Binding XPath=/Inventory/Product}"
Margin="89,65,0,77" Width="200"/>
</Grid>
my Xaml file:
<Window x:Class="WpfXmlDataBinding.MainWindow"
xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml/presentation"
xmlns:x="http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml"
Title="MainWindow" Height="922" Width="874">
<Window.Resources>
<DataTemplate x:Key="ProductTemplate">
<StackPanel>
<TextBlock Text="{Binding XPath=@ProductID}"/>
<TextBlock Text="{Binding XPath=Cost}"/>
<TextBlock Text="{Binding XPath=Description}"/>
<CheckBox IsChecked="{Binding XPath=HotItem}"/>
<TextBlock Text="{Binding XPath=Name}"/>
</StackPanel>
</DataTemplate>
</Window.Resources>
<Grid DataContext="{Binding Source={StaticResource InventoryXmlDataStore}}">
<ListBox HorizontalAlignment="Left" Height="370"
ItemTemplate="{DynamicResource ProductTemplate}"
ItemsSource="{Binding XPath=/Inventory/Product}"
Margin="65,55,0,0" VerticalAlignment="Top" Width="270"/>
</Grid>
</Window>
All looks quite the same except the <XmlDataProvider ....> part under <Window.Resources>, which is gone completely in my Xaml file.
1, Why?
2, How many different ways to deal with xml data source through WPF?
Thanks, guys.
(ps My "WpfXmlDataBinding" runs without problem through.)

Never do yourself down Richard.
Leave that to other people.
It's quite common for smart developers to think they're not as good as they are.
I coach a fair bit and it's a surprisingly common feeling.
And to repeat.
Never use anything ends .. provider. They're for trivial demo apps. Transform xml into objects and use them. Write it back as xml. Preferably, use a database.
You want to read a little mvvm theory first.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Model_View_ViewModel
Whatever you do, don't read Josh Smiths explanation. I used to recommend it but it confuses the heck out newbies. Leave that until later.
Laurent Bugnion did a great presentation at mix10. Unfortunately that doesn't seem to be working on the MS site, but I have a copy. Download and watch:
http://1drv.ms/1IYxl3z
I'm writing an article at the moment which is aimed at beginners.
http://social.technet.microsoft.com/wiki/contents/articles/30564.wpf-uneventful-mvvm.aspx
The sample is just a collection of techniques really.
I have a sample which involves no real data but is intended to illustrate some aspects of how viewmodels "do stuff" and how you use datatemplates to generate UI.
I can't remember if I recommended it previously to you:
https://gallery.technet.microsoft.com/WPF-Dialler-simulator-d782db17
And I have working samples which are aimed at illustrating line of business architecture. This is an incomplete step by step series but I think more than enough to chew on once you've done the previous stuff.
http://social.technet.microsoft.com/wiki/contents/articles/28209.wpf-entity-framework-mvvm-walk-through-1.aspx
The write up for step2 is work in progress.
https://gallery.technet.microsoft.com/WPF-Entity-Framework-MVVM-78cdc204
Hope that helps.
Recent Technet articles: Property List Editing;
Dynamic XAML

Pretty Print

Hi,
Is there a 'pretty-print' extension, similar to the function
in XML Spy except for HTML and Dreamweaver?
Basically, it takes something like (a)
And turns it into (b)
Thanks
Example:

Um, do you mean somthng like the DW menu: Commands > Apply
Source Formatting - ?
Corona

Smartform : I s it possible to do pretty printer setting in Smartform codin

Hi
Is it possible to do pretty printer setting in Smartform so that coding can be ligned as we do in se38.
Thanks

HI,
I basically created a 'Z' prog in dev env and copied all code to this did pretty print then copied 'as-is' back into smartform.
long way around but did the trick..
Thanks
SB

Pretty printing Java in Studio 4

ctrl-shift-f
Pretty prints your Java code but wrapping on line continuations aren't indented.
myFunction(param1,
param2,
param3)
Is there a way to change this? We have lots of programmers with a variety of styles and the customer requires all code to use the same style. So if there was a simple way to standardize the code in a correct way it would be appreciated. No time to get all coders to same standard.
thanks in advance

Sorry for posting in this Forum.
I'll post it in the installation forum.
But, hey, feel free to help me!!!! :)

Really no way to pretty print XML???

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