Class: REXML::Formatters::Pretty

Class | REXML::Formatters::Pretty
In: | temp/formatters/pretty.rb
Parent: | Default

Pretty-prints an XML document. This destroys whitespace in text nodes and will insert carriage returns and indentations.

TODO: Add an option to print attributes on new lines

### Methods

new write_cdata write_comment write_document write_element write_text

### Attributes

compact | [RW] | If compact is set to true, then the formatter will attempt to use as little space as possible
width | [RW] | The width of a page. Used for formatting text

### Public Class methods

new( indentation=2, ie_hack=false )

Create a new pretty printer.

output: | An object implementing ’<<(String)’, to which the output will be written.
indentation: | An integer greater than 0. The indentation of each level will be this number of spaces. If this is < 1, the behavior of this object is undefined. Defaults to 2.
ie_hack: | If true, the printer will insert whitespace before closing empty tags, thereby allowing Internet Explorer‘s feeble XML parser to function. Defaults to false.

### Protected Instance methods

write_cdata( node, output)
write_comment( node, output)
write_document( node, output )
write_element(node, output)
write_text( node, output )

[Validate]