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RE: Xpath Question

• To: "Simon St.Laurent" <simonstl@s...>,<xml-dev@l...>
• Subject: RE: Xpath Question
• From: "Michael Rys" <mrys@m...>
• Date: Fri, 25 Jul 2003 12:10:13 -0700
• Thread-index: AcNS32ZExHBQmHP5R6u0sghjmJvxrAAAItKQ
• Thread-topic: Xpath Question

Basically: yes.

However, if you set your data model generator to preserving all boundary
whitespace text nodes per default, and all data model generators handle
all the information items in the same way as well (again, no conformance
requirement there for XPath 1.0, but potentially one given in the
context of the embedding standard such as XSLT 1.0), then you will get a
consistent model.

Best regards
Michael

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Simon St.Laurent [mailto:simonstl@s...]
> Sent: Friday, July 25, 2003 12:01 PM
> To: xml-dev@l...
> Subject: RE:  Xpath Question
> 
> 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.
> 
> --
> Simon St.Laurent
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