Preserve comments and whitespace - Usage for attranslate

[fkirc]

Hi,

I am currently running experiments with saxes and attranslate: https://github.com/fkirc/attranslate
attranslate is a new tool for semi-automated app- und website translations.
A goal of attranslate is to modify existing XML-files with as little changes as possible.
Therefore, one thing that I am curious about is the preservation of XML-comments and whitespace (linebreaks).

It would be nice to have a tree-structure that preserves literally all information when reading an XML-file and then writing the (almost) same XML-file again.

Perhaps you could point me in a direction on how to best achieve whitespace- and comments-preservation?

[lddubeau]

Right off the bat I have to say I'm not terribly interested in the preservation of whitespaces and comment.

This being said, if we can achieve this without causing a slowdown elsewhere, I'll all for it. This means carefully running benchmarks while developing to avoid last minute surprise.This being said that's about all I can say for now on this topic. If you need/want more help, please ask here. Just don't be surprised if it takes me a while to answer. I'm very busy.

[fkirc]

Right off the bat I have to say I'm not terribly interested in the preservation of whitespaces and comment.

This being said, if we can achieve this without causing a slowdown elsewhere, I'll all for it. This means carefully running benchmarks while developing to avoid last minute surprise.This being said that's about all I can say for now on this topic. If you need/want more help, please ask here. Just don't be surprised if it takes me a while to answer. I'm very busy.

This is fine, every library has different priorities.
I assume that you would maybe look into a PR if performance is good, but you wouldn't implement it by your own?

[winston01]

To me it seems that the "text" event contains the whitespaces and there's also a "comment" event.

[lddubeau]

As I recall the issue is not whether events are produced with white spaces or not, but whether saxes guarantees that each and every white space in the source is passed on to the application using it. As I recall, no such guarantee is made.