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Close. All text which is not markup gets passed through to the application. That's everything not between "<" and ">". Some information which _is_ markup is also passed on the the application, although the XML 1.0 Rec isn't all that demanding about what _has_ to be preserved here. Attribute Values are considered to be markup. Whitespace inside them is subject to "Normalization", per the XML Rec section 3.3.3. -Wayne Steele >From: David Valera <dvalera@p...> >To: 'Sean McGrath' <sean@d...>, xml-dev@l... >Subject: RE: tabs to indent for pretty-printing (is it correct?) >Date: Tue, 31 Oct 2000 14:55:25 +0100 > > > > > At 07:56 AM 10/31/00 -0500, you wrote: > > >David Valera writes: > > > > > > [on converting spaces to tabs] > > > > > > > Well, it is my inderstanding of the XML spec that it actually > > > > *does* change the actual content since in the first example there > > > > are a few textnodes (with tabs in it) that are not present in the > > > > second example. An XML processor must always pass all > > characters in > > > > a document. Tabs and spaces are such characters. > > > > It is not quite that simple. Consider this:- > > <Example > > type = "Simple Example" > > purpose = "illustrative"> > > </Example> > > > > Most of the tabs and spaces in the above document are not > > passed to the application. > >Well, I was only talking about non markup tabs and spaces. From the XML >spec: > >"An XML processor must always pass all characters in a document that are >not >markup through to the application". > >tabs and spaces within the markup (except the ones inside the '"' marks) >should be ignored. Am I correct assuming this? > >David Valera > _________________________________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com. Share information about yourself, create your own public profile at http://profiles.msn.com.
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