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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.
Correct.
> If I read the XML spec correctly, adding tabs and spaces to increase
> readability is often done, but it is not intended to be saved as such
> (significant whitespace excluded of course).
That's application-specific; i.e. the parser passes all of the
characters (including whitespace) to the application, then the
application decides what is and isn't significant for its purposes.
All the best,
David
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