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> > An XML processor must always pass all characters in a document > > that are not markup through to the application. A validating > > XML processor must distinguish white space in element content > > from other non-markup What the PR means to say here is that a DTD-driven XML parser has to treat whitespace in element content differently than whitespace in mixed content -- this, of course, has nothing to do with xml:space. If there is no DTD, then all element types are assumed to allow mixed content, so a DTD-driven XML parser ("validating XML processor") would report all whitespace as significant. What should SAX do with ignorable whitespace? 1) Report it as a distinct event, like Ælfred does? 2) Treat it as regular character data? 3) Ignore it (as in regular SGML)? (1) seems to be what the PR requires. Either (2) or (3) could cause strange results. All the best, David -- David Megginson ak117@f... Microstar Software Ltd. dmeggins@m... http://home.sprynet.com/sprynet/dmeggins/ xml-dev: A list for W3C XML Developers. To post, mailto:xml-dev@i... Archived as: http://www.lists.ic.ac.uk/hypermail/xml-dev/ To (un)subscribe, mailto:majordomo@i... the following message; (un)subscribe xml-dev To subscribe to the digests, mailto:majordomo@i... the following message; subscribe xml-dev-digest List coordinator, Henry Rzepa (mailto:rzepa@i...)
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