From: Paul DuBois (paul@snake.net)
Date: Sat Mar 04 2000 - 10:51:40 EST
>On Sat, Mar 04, 2000 at 08:04:21AM -0600, Paul DuBois wrote:
>>
>> > Following the feedback received I have made version 2.x comply with
>> >the XML specification. All blanks spaces are passed to SAX as characters()
>> >with the only exception of doing validating parsing and the element
>> >is not defined as CDATA nor mixed content. The xml:space="preserve"
>> >is looked for in 2.x code and in that case blanks which can be ignored
>> >accordingly to the Dtd are passed anyway through characters(), and will
>> >generate nodes in the DOM tree.
>>
>>
>> Does this apply to newlines as well? In particular, will a text segment
>> consisting only of a newline generate an XML_TEXT_NODE node? (I ask
>> because of the behavior I posted a note to the list about yesterday.)
>
>Yes, by default in version 2.0 no blank is ever ignored unless one is
>using a DTD and the element are not mixed content nor CDTATA.
Cool! Thanks!
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