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On Mon, 19 Jul 1999, Randy Bryan wrote: > The XML specification doesn't allow > for whitespace in several places. This is because it is a derivative of SGML, which is a delimiter-based language, not a token-based one. Another way to look at it is that the </ in an end tag is a single token, although </ this> is not a legal example, so that isn't really as helpful as one might like. In writing our book on XML, Ian and I did no better, I think, than suggesting that readers simply learn the rules :-( Lee (co-author, The XML Specification Guide, Wiley) -- Liam Quin, Barefoot Computing, Toronto; The barefoot agitator l i a m q u i n at i n t e r l o g dot c o m Ankh on irc.sorcery.net, ankle5/Ankle{MD} on DALnet 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/ and on CD-ROM/ISBN 981-02-3594-1 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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