Re: AW: [PEAR-DEV] [RfC] XML_Beautifier

On 19 Sep 2003 at 18:20, Greg Beaver wrote: > Stephan Schmidt wrote: > > > >>Cool stuff. But what do you think of changing the name to > >>XML_Formatter? > >>(XML_Beautifier is ok for me as well.) > > > > > > Formatter has been the first name I had chosen, but it always > > reminded me of formatting harddisks :-) And then people started > > talking about a code beautifier and I changed the name. > > > > But if more people vote in favour of XML_Formatter, I will change > > the name... > > I prefer beautifier, as formatting implies more structural/data > changes than beautifying which is clearly cosmetic in nature :) Stephan, could you maybe think about whether it's possible to change even the order of elements in the XML according to a dtd? Then we could solve many package.xml-issues (correct ordering of elements - as discussed in connection with Tomas's dtd) automatically. And then I guess it would be a "Formatter" (or even "Refactorer" :-))). Stefan