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What I wonder is, how does SAX decide what is ignorable whitespace and what is significant? I'm not clear on how that works, and the role xml:space plays in defining that. Ignoring whitespace is one of the most tedious things I keep doing in my XML parsing apps, I'd prefer to have to explicitly *work* to keep whitespace. What I don't understand is, given something like this in a DTD: <!ELEMENT QUOTE (SOURCE?|LINE+|KEY+)> Why wouldn't *any* character data located within <QUOTE></QUOTE> (and not inside one of it's child elements) be ignorable? I'd expect a parser seeing this: <QUOTE> <SOURCE href="http://www.quotesrus.com/"> <LINE>This is line 1 of the quote</LINE> </QUOTE> To ignore those carriage returns and extraneous spaces within the QUOTE element, and just give me the SOURCE and LINE elements and their content. Sorry if this is a stupid question, but it has been bugging me the last couple weeks. -- Michael J. Suzio Web Technical Standards, WWW & Internet Applications (313) 24-88120 msuzio@e... / msuzio@f... 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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