• To: "DuCharme, Bob (LNG-CHO)" <bob.ducharme@l...>
• Subject: Re: Need clarification of Section 2.11 End-of-Line Hand ling in XML Specification
• From: John Cowan <cowan@m...>
• Date: Fri, 5 Sep 2003 11:18:07 -0400
• Cc: "'Roger L. Costello'" <costello@m...>, xml-dev@l...
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DuCharme, Bob (LNG-CHO) scripsit:

> >Notice that the only part which has been affected by 
> >the "normalization" is the text from the entity.
> >...
> >2. The second way of interpreting this section of the XML specification
> >is that an XML processor will normalize *** all *** line breaks 
> 
> If you compare the second paragraph in
> http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-xml#sec-line-ends with the second paragraph in 2.11
> of the original 1998 version of the Recommendation
> (http://www.w3.org/TR/1998/REC-xml-19980210#sec-line-ends), the key
> difference is the addition of the phrase "(including the document entity),"
> which I'm guessing was added to address the very point you bring up, so it
> looks like 2. is correct to me.

That is right.

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