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RE: Re: I can XInclude where I bloody want to

• To: "'David Carlisle'" <davidc@n...>,<mike@s...>
• Subject: RE: Re: I can XInclude where I bloody want to
• From: "Michael Kay" <michael.h.kay@n...>
• Date: Thu, 2 May 2002 11:46:41 +0100
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• In-reply-to: <200205020834.JAA17097@p...>
• Reply-to: <michael.h.kay@n...>

> > I just keep thinking back to MSXML and whitespace, though.
> There's an example
> > of a processor bucking the trend, and on the whole, no one
> is really suffering
> > because of it. ...
>
> I disagree. This is a near fatal blow to using IE as an XML document
> browser.

It's not totally fatal, because by writing enough scripting code in an HTML
page you can force it to do the correct thing and preserve the spaces.

I always thought the <?xml-stylesheet?> processing instruction was a bad
idea anyway, data should not define its own presentation rules even
indirectly.

Michael Kay
Software AG
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work: Michael.Kay@s...

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