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From: "Nestel, Frank  IZ/HZA-IC4" <nestefan@de.ina.com>
To: "'Ant Users List'" <user@ant.apache.org>
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Subject: AW: Removing whitespace in the code
Date: Wed, 26 Feb 2003 09:20:59 +0100
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This would be another application for the
Jacson task (http://jacson.sf.net).
Unfortunately I'm not sure it is ready for=20
this yet. But it wouldn't be to hard to include.

Guess this is less than 1 cent.

Frank

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> Von: Lee, Michael.M [mailto:Michael.M.Lee@westgroup.com]=20
> Gesendet: Dienstag, 25. Februar 2003 21:55
> An: 'Ant Users List'
> Betreff: RE: Removing whitespace in the code
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> Ok, so i was asking a little different question.
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> What I'm trying to optimize is HTML files.  We are trying to=20
> cut down the time that take to send a html file to a user. =20
> In order to do that, we thought it will be better to get rid=20
> of whitespace in html.  we have done that manually before but=20
> i heard there is a way to do this in ANT.
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> is it true?
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> Thanks for your attention!
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> Michael.
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Mike Ayers [mailto:mayers@NEVIKNETWORKS.com]
> Sent: Tuesday, February 25, 2003 2:08 PM
> To: Ant Users List
> Subject: RE: Removing whitespace in the code
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> > From: Lee, Michael.M [mailto:Michael.M.Lee@westgroup.com]
> > Sent: Tuesday, February 25, 2003 11:41 AM
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> > When I write code, I like to put indentations on every line
> > so it's easy to
> > read ( i think everyone does).  However, when i package the=20
> code, the
> > whitespace used for indentation takes up to 30-40 percent of=20
> > the file size!
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> > So i would like to get rid of all the white space before i=20
> build the=20
> > application.
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> > is it possible with Ant?  if so, how should i do that?
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> 	I'm having trouble following this.  Do you believe that=20
> preremoving whitespace will make your application compile=20
> faster?  Any difference would be too small to notice.  Are=20
> you packaging the source code?  If you use a packaging=20
> method, such as jar, zip or tar.gz, that has compression as=20
> an integral part, the whitespace will be highly compressible=20
> and have little effect on your final file size, as well as=20
> keep your files readable.  Please give consideration as to=20
> whether this is necessary.
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> 	If you still wish to strip out those spaces, you will=20
> probably have to do some customization, unless I missed=20
> something.  The closest I could get was the LoadFile task=20
> with a custom FilterReader, but I still couldn't figure out=20
> how to write the property back to a file.
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> /|/|ike
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