[XML-DEV Mailing List Archive Home] [By Thread] [By Date] [Recent Entries] [Reply To This Message] RE: tabs to indent for pretty-printing (is it correct?)
> > If I read the XML spec correctly, adding tabs and spaces > to increase > > readability is often done, but it is not intended to be > saved as such > > (significant whitespace excluded of course). > > That's application-specific; i.e. the parser passes all of the > characters (including whitespace) to the application, then the > application decides what is and isn't significant for its purposes. This means that if I open an XML file with an (XML)editor, add an element and save it back again, it is possible that not only the element I inserted is added, but also the whitespaces that the application 'decides' to include. I am asking this because I have opened numerous XML files in XMLeditors and without changing the content I was surprised to see all kinds of tabs and spaces added to the saved document (just to make it easy readable). This pretty-printing question is also one FAQ if you look at the xml newsgroups... David Valera
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