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

On Wed, 3 Sep 2003, David Carlisle wrote:

> 
> > 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.

ah, gotcha.  

rday


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