Re: trying to drop leading/trailing WS text nodes from

> but the code you're referring to is for removing *leading* linefeeds
> from the left, so that normalization won't have any effect, will it?

yes, any literal control-m character or literal control-j control-m pair
is effectively replaced by a single control-j _before_ XML parsing
happens. this is mandated by the XML spec.

> and the normalization you're talking
> about is only for the end of lines, no?

yes but where end-of-line is by definition any literal control-m
character or literal control-j control-m pair occuring anywher in the
file.

The only way to get a control-m into an XML file is to have 
 or
some equivalent construct. Writing a line end on a macintosh or
windows machine will only produce a unix style control-j in the result of
parsing the document. So basically if you are looking for line ends you
only ever need look for control-j.

David


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