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Agreed.  (One could make the same argument against formatting guidelines 
for any normal programming language as well. This is just about 
readability/maintainability rules.)

On 10/16/15 1:34 AM, abdullah alamoudi wrote:
> I believe this is about the format style of the xml files (i.e lines vs.
> tabs, indentation size, max line size, etc). I don't see any harm in fixing
> that and I think that is a good idea.
>
> Cheers,
> Abdullah.
>
> Amoudi, Abdullah.
>
> On Fri, Oct 16, 2015 at 7:23 PM, Jochen Wiedmann <jochen.wiedmann@gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> With XML, I *very strongly* discourage any formatting guidelines, aka
>> syntax rules. XML is about semantics. Syntax is something you'll
>> sooner or later end up struggling against.
>>
>> Jochen
>>
>>
>> On Thu, Oct 15, 2015 at 11:06 PM, Eldon Carman <ecarm002@ucr.edu> wrote:
>>> I found this e-mail about formatting XML [1] in our old google group
>>> mailing list. Do we want to use these formatting guidelines for our
>>> project? If so, should we add this to our directions for setting up
>>> eclipse. :-)
>>>
>>> Mahalo,
>>> Preston
>>>
>>> [1]
>> https://groups.google.com/d/msg/asterixdb-dev/GtaQ4W7fYGQ/uskBBFN3vYoJ
>>
>>
>>
>> --
>> The next time you hear: "Don't reinvent the wheel!"
>>
>>
>> http://www.keystonedevelopment.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/evolution-of-the-wheel-300x85.jpg
>>


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