Jeni's Musings

For all its flaws, XML Spy does cope with long lines better than Oxygen. It also has a useful bug in that it ignores xml:space=”preserve” when doing pretty printing. So, until recently, I tended to use XML Spy for opening WordML files.

However, I’ve found the most recent version of Oxygen much more performant with long lines than it used to be: you are using 8.2?

I actually raised a feature request against Oxygen some time ago to have an option to ignore xml:space, but with no response; understandable, but still annoying.

Oh, and I can confirm that OOXML doesn’t have an xml:space preserve on the root element anymore.