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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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