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O.k. Understood Thanks for clearing that up for me. Peter Jones WebDev Technical Editor Wrox Press mailto:peterj@w... *************** Wrox Press UK Ltd. http://www.wrox.co.uk Tel 44 121 706 6826 Fax 44 121 706 2967 >-----Original Message----- >From: Tim Bray [SMTP:tbray@t...] >Sent: Thursday, August 06, 1998 2:51 PM >To: Peter Jones; 'xml-dev@i...' >Subject: Re: White space > >At 01:48 PM 8/6/98 +0100, Peter Jones wrote: >>The value "default" signals that applications' default white space >>processing modes are acceptable for this element..." >> >>This is then opposed to the value "preserve" which preserves whitespace >>for the element. Which suggests that the default processing is >>normalization of whitespace. >> >>But according to the first line above, the default XML processing is >>preservation of whitespace. So what is the default mode of the >>processor? >>Preserve or not? > >xml:space has no effect on the behavior of the *processor* - the >processor always has to pass through all the white space. It is a >signal from the document author to the *application*, and if it >has any effect (not guaranteed) that would be on the behavior of >the application. -T. 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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