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Whitespace question

• From: Randy Bryan <rbryan@C...>
• To: XML Developer List <xml-dev@i...>
• Date: Tue, 3 Aug 1999 21:39:51 -0400 (EDT)

Thanks for your reply.  
I have another similar question.
Suppose I want to set xml:space to "default" for all of
the character data.  Is this valid?

<?xml version="1.0" standalone="yes" xml:space="default"?>

It doesn't seem to allow it according to the EBNF, but I 
could be wrong.  If it's not allowed, how would I go
about setting "default" for all of the character data
in the text?  I have no use for DTD's if that matters.

<quote>
On Mon, 19 Jul 1999, Randy Bryan wrote:
> The XML specification doesn't allow
> for whitespace in several places.

This is because it is a derivative of SGML, which is a delimiter-based
language, not a token-based one.
Another way to look at it is that the </ in an end tag is a single
token, although </ this> is not a legal example, so that isn't really
as helpful as one might like.

In writing our book on XML, Ian and I did no better, I think, than
suggesting that readers simply learn the rules :-(

Lee (co-author, The XML Specification Guide, Wiley)

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