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• Subject: RE: Handling of significant whitespace in .NET XmlReade r
• From: "Simon St.Laurent" <simonstl@s...>
• Date: Fri, 4 Jul 2003 07:41:24 -0400
• In-reply-to: <FDB2B24CDBAED411ADF100508BF95547024C4167@k...>

Extern.Eckenberger@k... (Eckenberger Axel) writes:
>So, I think there is a problem with the reader as it removes
>whitespace that is semantically significant, and this, at least as I
>read the spec, should not be done by an XML processor.

If I remember right, someone claimed long ago that MSXML (and probably
its derivatives) counted itself an "XML application", not an "XML
processor", and thereby gave itself the right to discard whitespace.

My memory's pretty fuzzy on this one - I suspect it was a number of
years ago, and I'd be happy to be corrected.

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