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On 08-Mar-00 Takuki Kamiya wrote: >> Actually this makes much more sense, than the result of literally following >> the spec. > But what it says must be accepted as what it means when we are dealing with > conformance tests; I mean the tests are not to be conformant otherwise. > sure. But it is allowed to criticize the spec, which is, what I intended by my last sentence. > The XML 1.0 Specification Errata made it unambiguous how character references > get normalized in contrast to how whitespace characters (not a space) do. > > See http://www.w3.org/XML/xml-19980210-errata#E61 > thanks for that hint. >> WS in empty elements: >> If an element is declared empty and denoted by a start and an end tag, >> should it be allowed to have whitespace between the tags? >> I don't think so. The spec says, that that the end tag must follow the >> start tag immediately. >> However I find samples where this happens. > > Which test cases are you talking about here? > Sorry. My fault. This was not about the test suite any longer. I just found some xml texts having this, when I tested my parser. And then I started to wonder, whether my unterstanding of spec at this point is right or not. Thanks for your and the others answers, greetings Morus *************************************************************************** This is xml-dev, the mailing list for XML developers. To unsubscribe, mailto:majordomo@x...&BODY=unsubscribe%20xml-dev List archives are available at http://xml.org/archives/xml-dev/ ***************************************************************************
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