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RE: Xpath Question

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• Subject: RE: Xpath Question
• From: "Simon St.Laurent" <simonstl@s...>
• Date: Fri, 25 Jul 2003 15:01:23 -0400
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mrys@m... (Michael Rys) writes:
>XPath 1.0 has no conformance requirement on what data model a parser
>needs to generate.
>
>Unless you have an explicit xml:space="preserve" set, the generation of
>the datamodel as a consumer of the output of the XML parser (which
>always preserves all the whitespace) can drop the boundary whitespace
>text nodes.

Then I guess you're saying that the XPath 1.0 model is useless if you
want a reliably consistent model of a given XML document?  

Oh well.

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Simon St.Laurent
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