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Re: Summary of XML line break normalization, impact of xml:spa

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• Subject: Re: Summary of XML line break normalization, impact of xml:space="preserve" on normalization
• From: David Carlisle <davidc@n...>
• Date: Mon, 8 Sep 2003 16:12:54 +0100
• Cc: xml-dev@l...
• In-reply-to: <3F5C9565.4D2CF29C@m...> (costello@m...)
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> 3. Other line separator characters can be inserted into an XML document
> (without getting normalized) by using character entity references.
>      For example, ordinarily \r would be normalized to \n.
>      If you want a \r in your XML document then use 
yes except they are character references not character entity references
(they're not entities, which makes a difference when interpreting some
edge cases against the rules for entities)

Of course the &#xD might still be normalised (to a space, #x20)
if it is in an attribute, attribute value normaltion is a different
beast, and happens after parsing, unlike eol normalisation which happens
before.

David 

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