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Tim Bray writes:
> Now, the downside of this is that you can't do
>
> <msg>
> <field1 val='1'/>
> <field2 val='2'/>
> </msg>
>
> and have that treated as identical to
>
> <msg><field1 val='1'/><field2 val='2'/></msg>
>
> i.e. no auto-magic facility to ignore pretty-printing.
> No XML processor in the world, regardless of the DTD in play is allowed
> to refrain from passing you the line-breaks and spaces in the
> first example.
True, but with a DTD and a DTD-aware XML parser, your application can
easily choose discard that additional whitespace.
All the best,
David
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