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I'll be very brief. There's little chance that there will be any new whitespace ignoring rules in XML. Everyone involved has read (and written!) literally hundreds of messages on the topic. Every variation you discussed has been gone over and they all were either: 1. unworkably complex (like the current SGML rules, whihc few remember and even fewer remember correctly)). 2. Not compatible with SGML, or unworkably ugly like the proposal to quote all literal text. 3. Failed to work without a DTD. This is the kicker, and it's required by XML because you don't always have the DTD, and different results in the has-DTD/doesn't-have-DTD cases are unacceptable. The recent change (to normalize all linends) fills the one hole the previous proposal had -- because it was nearly certain that some processes would blindly change CRLF and their ilk anyhow. My advice: don't waste you're bytes complaining about this -- we've heard it _all_ before -- and the solution that works best is to leave it to the application. Aside: XML-SPACE doesn't affect this -- it's in the lines of a "standard hint" that will allow applications like web-crawlers and full-text indexers to make more sense out of markup according to DTDs about which they lack special knowledge. So it doesn't contradict the "pass all space" philosophy, but rather supplements it, to enhance document re-use. -- David xml-dev: A list for W3C XML Developers Archived as: http://www.lists.ic.ac.uk/hypermail/xml-dev/ To unsubscribe, send to majordomo@i... the following message; unsubscribe xml-dev List coordinator, Henry Rzepa (rzepa@i...)
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