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Bug 337528

Summary: Different formatting of name space declarations
Product: [WebTools] WTP Source Editing Reporter: Rasmus Lund <rasmus>
Component: wst.xmlAssignee: wst.xml-triaged <wst.xml-triaged>
Status: NEW --- QA Contact: Nick Sandonato <nsand.dev>
Severity: enhancement    
Priority: P3 CC: nsand.dev, thatnitind, zohar.pdfnitro
Version: unspecifiedKeywords: helpwanted
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OS: Windows XP   
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Description Rasmus Lund CLA 2011-02-18 04:05:12 EST 
Build Identifier: 3.2.2.v201008170019-377AB8s73533J5H335L

when doing formatting of XML code, it would be really nice, if xmlns attributes and xsi:schemaLocation COULD be treated differently than other types of attributes.

Usually I like attributes to be listed on the same line as the element opening tag itself. But with namespaces I like each name space declaration to be on it's own line.

Furthermore I like special formatting of xsi:schemaLocation, so each namespace to location pair gets a separate line.

Reproducible: Always

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Comment 1 Nick Sandonato CLA 2011-02-18 12:03:10 EST 
Thanks for your request. There are a lot of things that could go into customizing the XML formatting experience. Any patches to move us along would be greatly appreciated.
Comment 2 Zohar Amir CLA 2015-11-23 23:54:02 EST 
are there any plans to include this in eclipse (I noticed it's been here for a while now...)?
Comment 3 Zohar Amir CLA 2015-12-06 08:12:29 EST 
why is there no response here since Feb 2011? can I do anything to help get this done?
Comment 4 Nitin Dahyabhai CLA 2016-01-20 10:59:39 EST 
As was said in comment 1, high quality patches implementing the changes. Even examples of the intended formatting would be useful for someone looking to implement it.
Comment 5 Zohar Amir CLA 2016-01-21 03:28:26 EST 
Created attachment 259292 [details]
example

an example I made up.
notice how the namespace attributes are each on it's own line, while the other attributes (e.g., attr2-1, attr2-2, attr-2-3) are on the same line.
I find it easier to read, maybe because the namespace attributes are longer by nature.
Comment 6 Zohar Amir CLA 2017-10-23 08:11:35 EDT 
example sent on January. is there any plan to implement this? 
it's something I keep doing almost every day - indenting the namespaces manually...