XSLT Formatting

The XMLSpectrum project was started with the primary goal of providing syntax-highlighting for XPath-family source code (XSLT, XQuery etc.) and leave the formatting exactly as in the source. However, when testing XMLSpectrum against many XSLT samples in the public domain, a significant number of formatting issues were found in the original source.

Issues in code formatting can severely impact the readability of the code - to the extent where syntax-highlighting becomes largely irrelevant. This is why a significant number of XML/XSLT formatting features are included in XMLSpectrum - whilst still keeping the option to preserve the original formatting 'as-is',

For this reason, XMLSpectrum uses the unparsed-text() XPath function on all input files, regardless of whether they are XML or not; this ensures that no whitespace is lost by an external XML parser.