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arkin writes: [on XML 1.0 reporting requirements for whitespace in element content] > > What's not clear here? -Tim > > 1. How does that relate to the spaces attribute and to the > default/preserve values? It has nothing to do with it. > 2. How does that relate to new line in the beginning/end of text > content? It has nothing to do with it. > 3. What is the application and what is an XML processor? Is it possible > that a generic XML "parser" generating SAX/DOM can be both processor and > application? XML doesn't have any official processing model, so we have to try to interoperate nicely in a less formal framework. > 4. Many applications do not care about whitespace, they only care about > the meaningful content. And many developers do not have the expertise to > strip away whitespaces properly. Is there anything we can do about it? Yes -- create (or use) filters. If high-level packages like SAXON don't already have filters that do this kind of thing, then they will soon. There are two important points to note, however: 1. Whitespace stripping should never surprise an application -- it should happen only if the application explicitly requests it, or if the application's design itself requires it (as in the case of an HTML browser). 2. There are *many* ways to normalize whitespace, so it's not a matter simply of adding one method call somewhere. All the best, David -- David Megginson david@m... http://www.megginson.com/ 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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