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Re: sax2, ignorable whitespace

• From: Amelia A Lewis <amyzing@t...>
• To: xml-dev@l...
• Date: Sun, 19 Nov 2006 20:01:12 -0500

On 2006-11-19 19:37:28 -0500 david.lyon@p... wrote:
> Quoting David Megginson <david.megginson@g...>:
>> On 19/11/06, Dave Pawson <davep@d...> wrote:
>>> I want to ignore whitespace,
>>> yet I don't want to mandate a DTD declaration.
> obtwjustbecarefulthateverythingcomesoutthewayyouexpectwhenyoudoit.

He'sprobablyalreadyconsideredthat,don'tyouthink?Therearesomeapplicationsinwhichwhitespaceisnever"interesting,"afterall.Granted,textisnotgenerallyconsideredoneofthoseapplications(althoughthat'samoderninvention(fsvo"modern"),asIunderstandit).

:-)

Amy!
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