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Bug 15430

Summary: Editor support re-formats layout
Product: projects Reporter: Laurie Harper <lharper>
Component: AntAssignee: Jesse Glick <jglick>
Status: VERIFIED WONTFIX    
Severity: blocker    
Priority: P3    
Version: 3.x   
Hardware: All   
OS: All   
Issue Type: DEFECT Exception Reporter:
Bug Depends on: 42859    
Bug Blocks:    

Description Laurie Harper 2001-09-13 03:36:53 UTC 
When working with the Ant build script editor support, various layout/formatting
changes are made to the script which are unacceptable.

Examples include re-ordering of attributes (e.g. 'name' attr on task defs get
shunted to end or attribute list) and deletion of whitespace (try putting an XML
comment at the end of the script).

This is a big problem in environments where NetBeans is not the only tool used
for editting, particularly when version control is in use.
Comment 1 Jesse Glick 2001-09-13 08:48:41 UTC 
I know about these problems, but there is currently no general XML
editing support in the IDE which would do 2-way conversion. So the
current 2-way support in the Ant module is a quick fix using the
Xerces serializer. It is not perfect. When XML 2-way is properly
implemented in the IDE in general, the Ant module will use it.
Comment 2 Jesse Glick 2003-02-19 16:35:11 UTC 
*** Issue 31210 has been marked as a duplicate of this issue. ***
Comment 3 Quality Engineering 2003-06-30 14:43:53 UTC 
Resolved for 3.3.x or earlier, no new info since then -> closing.
Comment 4 Quality Engineering 2003-06-30 14:46:31 UTC 
Resolved for 3.3.x or earlier, no new info since then -> closing.
Comment 5 Jan Chalupa 2003-10-30 12:07:13 UTC 
A mistakenly closed RESOLVED LATER/REMIND issue. Reopening.
Comment 6 Jesse Glick 2003-12-19 15:14:23 UTC 
Still awaiting XML module support.
Comment 7 Jesse Glick 2004-04-07 00:16:46 UTC 
*** Issue 41714 has been marked as a duplicate of this issue. ***
Comment 8 Jesse Glick 2004-05-05 16:14:00 UTC 
Will just remove structural editing support in D, can't be fixed
without XML tool support.
Comment 9 Marian Mirilovic 2005-07-12 10:02:06 UTC 
closed