Good afternoon,
today I tried to migrate to the new 2019a version.
All my current code ran pretty well as I had hoped, but there is one big issue for me. I write some of my results in XML, and the way XML is handled by Matlab has changed in a way that is undesired for me: It is regards to line breaks. I made a demo script to reproduce the bug so it would be easier to understand what I mean.
Problem: After writing number of attributes on the same tag eventually it will start to wrap them. From that first wrap, it will actually wrap every single attribute line-by-line.
The resulting output is most likely according to XML specs (it can be understood perfectly), but for a human it looks hideous.
After trying to change the bahaviour and playing with some javasettings I gave up and reverted to 2018a.
Imagine a 50-500 tag xml with this behaviour... ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Does anybody understand what is going on here, why it has changed and if there is a way to mitigate this in the new release?
Thank you for reading
Cheers, Daniel
Script to reproduce the bug:
docNode = com.mathworks.xml.XMLUtils.createDocument('Demo');
root = docNode.getDocumentElement;
Content = docNode.createElement('Content');
Analysis = docNode.createElement('Analysis');
Output = docNode.createElement('LongNamedElementWrapsSoonerYoullSee');
for i=1:15
Analysis.setAttribute(strcat('t',num2str(i)),'test');
end
for i=1:3
Output.setAttribute(strcat('t',num2str(i)),'AtLeastItWillGetTheTabsRight');
end
root.appendChild(Content);
Content.appendChild(Analysis);
Content.appendChild(Output);
xmlwrite('Demo.xml',docNode);
2018a output
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<Demo>
<Content>
<Analysis t1="test" t10="test" t11="test" t12="test" t13="test" t14="test" t15="test" t2="test" t3="test" t4="test" t5="test" t6="test" t7="test" t8="test" t9="test"/>
<LongNamedElementWrapsSoonerYoullSee t1="AtLeastItWillGetTheTabsRight" t2="AtLeastItWillGetTheTabsRight" t3="AtLeastItWillGetTheTabsRight"/>
</Content>
</Demo>
2019a output
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<Demo>
<Content>
<Analysis t1="test" t10="test" t11="test" t12="test" t13="test" t14="test" t15="test"
t2="test"
t3="test"
t4="test"
t5="test"
t6="test"
t7="test"
t8="test"
t9="test"/>
<LongNamedElementWrapsSoonerYoullSee t1="AtLeastItWillGetTheTabsRight" t2="AtLeastItWillGetTheTabsRight"
t3="AtLeastItWillGetTheTabsRight"/>
</Content>
</Demo>
