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Re: Whitespace

• From: Marcus Carr <mrc@a...>
• To: xml-dev@i...
• Date: Tue, 26 Aug 1997 09:23:41 +1000

Sean Mc Grath wrote:

> >On Mon, 25 Aug 1997, Sean Mc Grath wrote:
> >> User A : "What file format is that?"
> >> User B : "It's MicroScape XML."
> >> User A : "I better buy a copy of MicroScape so - otherwise the
> white space
> >> will get busted again".
>
> [Liam Quin]
> >If this happens, it wlil be time to standardise whitespace handling
> at the
> >applicaton level, perhaps.  Right now, I fnd this argument totally
> bogus.
>
> What are you saying? Lets wait and see if the horse bolts - if he does
> we will lock the barn door?

By then, there will be far too many hands on the door to think about
locking it; the best you can hope for is to kiss the horse goodbye on
the way past.


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