Bug#305878: RFP: xmlindent -- xml stream reformatter written in ansi C. Analogous to GNU indent.

[browaeys.alban@wanadoo.fr]

Package: wnpp
Severity: wishlist


* Package name    : xmlindent
  Version         : 0.2.17
  Upstream Author : Pekka Enberg <penberg at iki dot fi>
* URL             : http://xmlindent.sourceforge.net/
* License         : GPL
  Description     : xml stream reformatter written in ansi C. Analogous to GNU indent.

(Include the long description here.)
This is the first working indent filter for xml that i found. It
processed my galeon xbel (with 7000 entries containing greek
titles, cyrillic, ...) in a second. 
hindent takes 2 minutes to do nothing on such a file.

I hope we could ahve it in debian regarding the wide use of
utf-8.

It tells:
UTF-8 and UTF-16 encoded streams will not be indented correctly
due to ASCII-only scanner generated by Flex. There's a patch to
Flex, however, for the brave.

Though we may have a patched flex in debian as it made wondered
on my utf-8 galeon xbel files.

Alban

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 3.1
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.11-rc5
Locale: LANG=fr_FR.UTF-8@euro, LC_CTYPE=fr_FR.UTF-8@euro (charmap=UTF-8)