Bug #5892: REXML always wraps long tag text regardless the page width setting.

• Status: Rejected
• Assignee: kou (Kouhei Sutou)
• Target version: 1.9.2
• ruby -v: ruby 1.9.2p180 (2011-02-18) [i386-mingw32]

[dimitri-lo2u (Dimitri Geshef)]

When ones prints a REXML document that contains a tag with a long text (with space chars), the REXML::Formatters::Pretty formatter will force a line wrapping at column 80.
If one changes the value of the width attribute of the formatter to a very large value does not change the result.
In other words, the formatter ignores the value of the 'width' attribute.
The REXML version used is:
REXML VERSION = "3.1.7.3"
REXML REVISION = 26193

Apparently, the defect lies in the method REXML::Formatters::Pretty#write_text.
There is a statement with a hardcoded value of 80.
Look in the .rb file in attachment for a possible fix of this bug.

[naruse (Yui NARUSE)]

• Status changed from Open to Assigned
• Assignee set to kou (Kouhei Sutou)

[kou (Kouhei Sutou)]

• Status changed from Assigned to Rejected
• % Done changed from 0 to 100

=begin
It seems that this had been fixed in Ruby 1.9.3. Please update your ruby or request a backport for r31997 and r31998. (ayumin will backport them. :-) See also #4498.

Ruby 1.9.3p0:
% ruby1.9.1 -v /tmp/XML_text_wrapping.rb
ruby 1.9.3p0 (2011-10-30 revision 33570) [x86_64-linux]

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Ruby trunk (r34305):
% /tmp/local/bin/ruby -v /tmp/XML_text_wrapping.rb
ruby 2.0.0dev (2012-01-14 trunk 34305) [x86_64-linux]

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