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At 13:18 01/01/98 -0800, Alexander Hinds wrote: [...] >Thanks. Oddly enough, though according to MS' docs: > >-- >Section 2.10 says that xml-space can be specified on any element controlling >whether white space is preserved or normalized. The default is to normalize >white space (which means unify all white space characters down to a single >space). To preserve whitespace set xml-space to preserve, and this is >inherited down the hierarchy. To switch back to the default, set xml-space >to default This is a grey area, and one where I feel the spec gives little guidance. The spec requires a **processor** (many of us see this as synonymous with *parser*) to behave in the way that DavidM has described earlier. There is nothing in the spec describing any whitespace normalisation for the content of elements [1]. If, therefore, msxml is acting wholly as a "processor" (a la spec) it would appear *not* to be an XML-compliant processor from what you have quoted above. If it is a combined processor/application, then it should not be used as a "parser" or "processor" unless it is possible to intercept the information at the level of "parser API". I have been vociferous in wanting to develop conventions for this area, and this highlights the need for SAX and for conventions. There will clearly be a demand for an "HTML-like" normalisation of whitespace, but there is no public move towards defining such a convention. The difficulties that we are having here will be amplified when there are dozens of parsers/applications/ with no agreed output. P. [1] *Attribute values* may be normalised if they are known not to be CDATA [3.3.3], but there is no extension to content of elements. > >-- > >Well, nomatter what I do it doesn't seem to do anything with the xml-space >attribute. Moreover, it doesn't seem to actually set the attribute for any >of my elements. For example, getAttribute(...) always returns null for >xml-space. > > >xml-dev: A list for W3C XML Developers. To post, mailto:xml-dev@i... >Archived as: http://www.lists.ic.ac.uk/hypermail/xml-dev/ >To (un)subscribe, mailto:majordomo@i... the following message; >(un)subscribe xml-dev >To subscribe to the digests, mailto:majordomo@i... the following message; >subscribe xml-dev-digest >List coordinator, Henry Rzepa (mailto:rzepa@i...) > > Peter Murray-Rust, Director Virtual School of Molecular Sciences, domestic net connection VSMS http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/vsms, Virtual Hyperglossary http://www.venus.co.uk/vhg xml-dev: A list for W3C XML Developers. To post, mailto:xml-dev@i... Archived as: http://www.lists.ic.ac.uk/hypermail/xml-dev/ To (un)subscribe, mailto:majordomo@i... the following message; (un)subscribe xml-dev To subscribe to the digests, mailto:majordomo@i... the following message; subscribe xml-dev-digest List coordinator, Henry Rzepa (mailto:rzepa@i...)
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