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RE: Handling of significant whitespace in .NET XmlReader

• To: 'Derek Denny-Brown' <derekdb@m...>, xml-dev@l...
• Subject: RE: Handling of significant whitespace in .NET XmlReader
• From: "Bullard, Claude L (Len)" <clbullar@i...>
• Date: Tue, 8 Jul 2003 12:45:35 -0500

And that is one demonstration of the limits of XML as 
a 'self-describing' format.  In the long haul, schematization 
in some form is required.  Given the other benefits, there are 
numerous 'advantages of XML' documents that should be ammended 
to reflect this fact.

len

From: Derek Denny-Brown [mailto:derekdb@m...]

the only viable option is (2).  And indeed, if you use the
XmlValidatingReader and have a DTD/XSD which identifies the content as
mixed, you will get back SignificantWhitespace, rather than just Whitespace.

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