Re: xml literals

[Per Bothner <per@bothner.com>]

On 06/13/2017 02:15 AM, Damien MATTEI wrote:
> hello,
> is there a way in HTML literal to make the code more human readable,
> by inserting CR between two literals or /and to indent the code, ican not find a way in the doc
>   to insert characters between literals or doing it , if it's not possible i suppose it is not trivial to do it
> as the method toString should be overwrite .

It does not appear to be documented, but XML literals can include the same
'special-escape' forms used in String template literals and named literals:

https://www.gnu.org/software/kawa/String-literals.html#meta-special-escape

I.e. use &- to include a newline in the literal, but not the the HTML text.
Use &| to add ignored initial indentation:

(write #<abc>123&-
     &|456</>)

=> #<abc>123456</abc>

Note: There is a bug so you can't type (just) the following into the REPL:

#<abc>123&-
     &|456</>

That should be an easy fix.
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