OK.

The DOM API doesn't have an interface that would allow me to represent the
information that " ", when being serialized, should not be escaped. So
to do it, an XSLT engine would need access to specific extensions of a
particular implementation.

Julian

> -----Original Message-----
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> [mailto:owner-xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of Daniel
> Veillard
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> Subject: Re:  Welcome comments: White spaces in HTML pages from
> XSLT
>
>
> On Fri, Dec 07, 2001 at 11:09:47AM +0100, Julian Reschke wrote:
> > >   Hum, with the exception of libxslt then, because that
> > > information is kept
> > > in the tree produced by the transformation.
> >
> > In which case it's not strictly a DOM tree, right?
>
>   Right, but it's always the case ...
>   DOM is an API, there is no definition of the way the tree itself
> has to be represented. Actually "a DOM tree" has no meaning, you have
> an XML "tree" or Infosets and an API to access them.
>
> Daniel
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