Setting an Indent Size to Zero

Oxygen XML Editor will automatically format and indent documents at certain times. This includes indenting the content from the margin to reflect its structure. In some cases you may not want your content indented. To avoid your content being indented, you can set an indent size of zero.

Note: Changing the indent size does not override the rules that Oxygen XML Editor uses for handling whitespace when formatting and indenting XML documents. Indents in elements that require whitespace to be maintained will not have their indent changed by these settings.

There are two cases to consider.

Maintaining zero indent in documents with zero indent

If you have existing documents with zero indent and you want Oxygen XML Editor to maintain a zero indent when editing or formatting those documents:

Open the Preferences dialog box and go to Editor > Format.
Select Detect indent on open.
Select Use zero-indent if detected.

Oxygen XML Editor will examine the indent of each document as it is opened and if the indent is zero for all lines, or for nearly all lines, a zero indent will be used when formatting and indenting the document. Otherwise, Oxygen XML Editor will use the indent closest to what it detects in the document.

Enforcing zero indent for all documents

If you want all documents to be formatted with zero indent, regardless of their current indenting:

Open the Preferences dialog box and go to Editor > Format.
Deselect Detect indent on open.
Set Indent size to 0.

All documents will be formatted and indented with an indent of zero.

Warning: Setting the indent size to zero can change the meaning of some file types, such as Python source files.