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From: Jeff Higgins <jeff@invalid.invalid>
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Subject: Re: Line wrapping
Date: Wed, 18 Jan 2012 13:38:54 -0500
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On 01/18/2012 11:04 AM, Mark wrote:
> On Wed, 18 Jan 2012 09:51:12 -0500, Jeff Higgins
> <jeff@invalid.invalid>  wrote:
>
>> On 01/18/2012 08:20 AM, Mark wrote:
>>> I need to write some code to wrap lines for printing.  The data to
>>> print is XML.  I have not found that the classes that I have found
>>> allow you to choose which characters are used as line breaks.
>>> For example org.apache.xml.serialize.OutputFormat does not do this.
>>
>> This may be of interest.
>> <http://xerces.apache.org/xerces2-j/faq-general.html#faq-6>
>
> I've tried this code but it presents the whole XML document all in one
> line.  I am trying to get some nicely formatted output for sending to
> a printer.  The code snippet I posted nearly does this, except for the
> line wrapping.
George Hawkins in a comment on the second answer in this question 
provided the link above. He also suggests:
writer.getDomConfig().setParameter("format-pretty-print", Boolean.TRUE);
<http://stackoverflow.com/questions/139076/how-to-pretty-print-xml-from-java>
I guess I should have pointed to this article to start but I don't know 
how to point to individual posts or comments.