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RE: Handling of significant whitespace in .NET XmlReader

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• Subject: RE: Handling of significant whitespace in .NET XmlReader
• From: Elliotte Rusty Harold <elharo@m...>
• Date: Tue, 8 Jul 2003 14:28:26 -0400
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At 10:45 AM -0700 7/8/03, Derek Denny-Brown wrote:
>I generally agree with your comments regarding the confusion that
>resulted from our implementation choice.  It was very hard to judge
>where the Xml user community would go back then (that decision is now
>over 4 yrs old..)  The worst part, is that with a large company, you
>can't change defaults like this.  You pray you make a good decision the
>first time through, because you are stuck with it.  If we changed the
>default for XSLT in IE, our support people would be _very_ unhappy.
>They would be fielding a deluge of complaints from corporate customers
>whose internal web-sites now didn't display like they used to, etc.. Not
>a showstopper, but I don't think we could get a change like that past
>the OS compatibility people.
>

In other words, it's more important to be compatible with old, broken 
Microsoft software than it is to be compatible with the actual 
specification and every other XSLT processor in the universe. And 
people wonder why Microsoft gets a bad rep.

-- 

   Elliotte Rusty Harold
   elharo@m...
   Processing XML with Java (Addison-Wesley, 2002)
   http://www.cafeconleche.org/books/xmljava
   http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ISBN%3D0201771861/cafeaulaitA

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