[XML-DEV Mailing List Archive Home] [By Thread] [By Date] [Recent Entries] [Reply To This Message] Re: carriage return handling in XML parsers
>It would appear that given this section, it is never possible >to get unaccompanied carriage return "characters" in the >stream of information provided by an XML parser, be it >SAX or DOM, unless I encode these as character references >in the input file to the parser. Is this correct? Yes. >On a related note, assuming simple ascii files, if I now >encode the carriage return as a character reference, and >round trip the file through an XSLT identity transform, >will the output file be identical or will the carriage >return now be represented as a single <CR> byte? Ooh, good question. It seems to me that XSLT ought to re-escape it, since it's supposed to output an XML file that would produce the same thing when read in again. But the two XSLT processors that I have to hand (xt and saxon, both probably rather old) just output CR characters. -- Richard
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