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On 10/07/2012 16:00, Michael Kay wrote: > xml:space="preserve" says that the author of the document believes all > white space to be significant; xml:space="preserve" says that the > recipient can do whatever he likes. The second one, of course, should have been xml:space="default" - MK > I don't know of any applications that use this attribute for any > purpose other than to decide whether whitespace-only text nodes should > be preserved, but one could certainly argue that an XSLT stylesheet > author who does normalize-space() on an element with > xml:space="preserve" is ignoring the document author's intentions > (which, of course, he is perfectly entitled to do). > > Michael Kay > Saxonica > > > On 10/07/2012 14:06, John P. McCaskey wrote: >> What is @xml:space about? >> >> Jesper Tverskov (at http://www.xmlplease.com/xml/xmlspace/) and >> Dimitre Novatchev (at http://stackoverflow.com/questions/11372222) >> say that @xml:space is, like <xsl:strip-space>, only about what to do >> with whitespace-only text nodes. Dimitre suggests that the spec might >> be ambiguous but that all implementations he knows read it as he does. >> >> But based on XML spec, fifth edition, 2.10 White Space Handling >> (http://www.w3.org/TR/xml/#sec-white-space), I think @xml:space is >> for telling an application whether it can proceed with whatever it >> was planning to do with white space inside a text node (such as >> collapsing it as an XSLT app making HTML might) or whether the >> application should preserve the white space found in the node. By >> this understanding, if an application collapsed white space in nodes, >> the white space-only text nodes too would get collapsed, but that >> would be an indirect (and inefficiently reached) result. >> >> Does @xml:space refer only to treatment of white space-only text >> nodes or to treatment of all text nodes? >> >> Thanks, >> John >> >> >> _______________________________________________________________________ >> >> XML-DEV is a publicly archived, unmoderated list hosted by OASIS >> to support XML implementation and development. To minimize >> spam in the archives, you must subscribe before posting. >> >> [Un]Subscribe/change address: http://www.oasis-open.org/mlmanage/ >> Or unsubscribe: xml-dev-unsubscribe@l... >> subscribe: xml-dev-subscribe@l... >> List archive: http://lists.xml.org/archives/xml-dev/ >> List Guidelines: http://www.oasis-open.org/maillists/guidelines.php >> >> > > > > _______________________________________________________________________ > > XML-DEV is a publicly archived, unmoderated list hosted by OASIS > to support XML implementation and development. To minimize > spam in the archives, you must subscribe before posting. > > [Un]Subscribe/change address: http://www.oasis-open.org/mlmanage/ > Or unsubscribe: xml-dev-unsubscribe@l... > subscribe: xml-dev-subscribe@l... > List archive: http://lists.xml.org/archives/xml-dev/ > List Guidelines: http://www.oasis-open.org/maillists/guidelines.php > >
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