From: Paul DuBois (paul@snake.net)
Date: Thu Mar 02 2000 - 10:29:56 EST
>On Thu, Mar 02, 2000 at 04:15:30AM +0100, Daniel Veillard wrote:
>> This proves to be incredibly hard to fix !!!
>[...]
>> The only ways I can think about this is the following:
>> 1/ provide a flag in the parser context to change the
>> behaviour to pass all white spaces (if we are not validating)
>> 2/ switch the parser to pass all white spaces to SAX,
>> but in the DOM generation callback, remove all text
>> nodes containing only empty spaces
>
> Ok, I have commited onto both CVS bases :
> - a new heuristic with the same behavior as before except
> it generates a text node when there is space and only spaces
> between the opening tag and ending tag
> - a extra flag in the parser context keepBlanks which if
> set will diable any heuristic (though white space can
> still be flagged as ignorable if there is a DTD and the
> element is not mixed-content)
>
>I have generated a libxml-pre-1.8.7.tar.gz and put it at
> ftp://rpmfind.net/pub/rpmfind/libxml-pre-1.8.7.tar.gz
>
>Gnumeric seems happy with it, please test if possible so that
>I can trust it to release 1.8.7,
>
It does what *I* want (thanks!), but I'm the new guy here. Dunno what
others think.
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