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At 09:39 PM 08/03/1999 -0400, Randy Bryan wrote: >Suppose I want to set xml:space to "default" for all of >the character data. Is this valid? > ><?xml version="1.0" standalone="yes" xml:space="default"?> No. The xml:space is an attribute, i.e. it applies to *elements*; the XML declaration is not an element. (Those things that look like attributes -- the version and standalone document declaration -- are more accuratly termed pseudo-attributes.) >If it's not allowed, how would I go >about setting "default" for all of the character data >in the text? Set xml:space="default" in your top-level element. It's inherited by all descendant elements unless they explicitly set it to xml:space="preserve". That said, why would you want to explicitly set it to the default in the top-level element (or, even if it were legal, in the XML declaration)? That would be redundant. The only place xml:space="default" makes sense is in the context of an ancestor element with xml:space="preserve". Like: <poetry xml:space="preserve"> <epigraph xml:space="default"> On the occasion of the poet's crackup. </epigraph> <stanza> [etc.] </stanza> </poetry> All the stanza elements would have their whitespace preserved. Only the epigraph element would follow the processor's default behavior, e.g. (maybe) stripping out extraneous blanks and newlines. ========================================================== John E. Simpson | The secret of eternal youth simpson@p... | is arrested development. http://www.flixml.org | -- Alice Roosevelt Longworth 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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