[slackorama]

There seems to be a problem with the formatting of XML documents (or perhaps my understanding of how it should work).

I have the “Split multiple attributes each on a new line” feature enabled, yet attributes are sharing the line. for instance:

<cache name="cacheName" maxElementsInMemory="10000" eternal="false" timeToLiveSeconds="300" overflowToDisk="false" />

becomes

<cache name="cacheName" maxElementsInMemory="10000" eternal="false"
        timeToLiveSeconds="300" overflowToDisk="false" />

I have the same feature enabled in the Ant editor and that line gets formatted to:

<cache name="cacheName"
           maxElementsInMemory="10000"
           eternal="false"
           timeToLiveSeconds="300"
           overflowToDisk="false" />

This is what I expect for each attribute to be on its own line. Is it me or MyEclipse?

I’m running Eclipse 3.1 with MyEclipse 3.9.210.

Thanks in advance.

[Riyad Kalla]

This is a low priority bug we have filed, sorry you ran into this, we hope to get things like this fixed in 5.0

[james d robinson]

I have a slightly different issue..
I am running myeclipse
Version: 4.0.3 GA
Build id: 20051025-4.0.3-GA
and eclipse
Version: 3.1.1
Build id: M20050929-0840

I selected “Split multiple attributes each on a new line” and it worked fine, but i decided to chage back to having this unchecked, but there is no change to the end formatting, i.e. it is still putting new attributes on new lines. How do i unselect this after selecting it, or is this another bug??

[Riyad Kalla]

Jim,
The problem is most likely that it won’t un-split lines back onto a single line it just will stop splitting them if they are already a single line. So try putting a tag back into a single line and reformatting with that setting OFF, it should leave the line alone.

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