[XML-DEV Mailing List Archive Home] [By Thread] [By Date] [Recent Entries] [Reply To This Message] Re: SAX and whitespace (was Re: Problems with whitespace and msxml)
At 09:57 AM 01/01/98 -0500, David Megginson wrote: >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? SAX must pass all whitespace in the document, without exception, through to the application. This is the only remotely conformant behavior. The mark-insignificant-WS stuff only is possible in the case you're validating, and users of SAX surely do not expect a validating-processor underneath. -Tim 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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