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David Valera writes: [on converting spaces to tabs] > Well, it is my inderstanding of the XML spec that it actually > *does* change the actual content since in the first example there > are a few textnodes (with tabs in it) that are not present in the > second example. An XML processor must always pass all characters in > a document. Tabs and spaces are such characters. 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. All the best, David -- David Megginson david@m... http://www.megginson.com/
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