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>At 1:07 PM -0500 8/25/97, Sean Mc Grath wrote: >>[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? > >This is a lovely example of how quoting out of context can replace giving a >counter-argument. Here's the _substantive_ part of Liam's note: [David Durand] My counter argument (not reproduced above) *followed* the sentence you *have* reproduced. A lovely example of how quoting.... Here is a concrete scenario that either illustrates the problem or illustrates my ignorance. I want to know how two XML applications that apply different WS conventions can inter-operate losslessly. Specifically, why is this scenario wrong? :- I wish to perform a null transformation across two editing tools App A and App B. foo.xml --> App A --> App B --> bar.xml I want foo.xml == bar.xml App A : reads foo.xml and treats WS according to APPA-WS-RULES writes temp.xml App B : reads temp.xml and treats WS according to APPB-WS-RULES writes bar.xml Result : foo1.xml != bar.xml xml-dev: A list for W3C XML Developers Archived as: http://www.lists.ic.ac.uk/hypermail/xml-dev/ To unsubscribe, send to majordomo@i... the following message; unsubscribe xml-dev List coordinator, Henry Rzepa (rzepa@i...)
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