RE: [Serialization] SCHEMA-I

> Mary,
> 
>      In [1], you submitted the following comment on the Last 
> Call Working 
> Draft of XSLT 2.0 and XQuery 1.0 Serialization on behalf of 
> the XML Schema 
> Working Group.
> 
> > [I] [Section 4.3: XML Output Method: the indent Parameter] 
> licenses the
> > addition of additional whitespace; this is not called out 
> as permitted 
> under
> > the rules in section 4, however.
> 
>      Thanks to you and the XML Schema Working Group for this comment.
> 
>      The XSL and XQuery Working Groups discussed the comment, 
> and agreed. 
> The following item will be added to the bulleted list in section 4 to 
> address this comment:
> 
> <<
> o Additional text nodes consisting of whitespace characters 
> may be present 
> in the new tree and some text nodes in the new tree may 
> contain additional 
> whitespace characters that were not present in the original 
> tree if the 
> indent parameter has the value yes, as described in 4.3 XML 
> Output Method: 
> the indent Parameter.
> >>

A point of detail: indentation is only allowed to create new whitespace text
nodes, or to modify a text node that consists entirely of whitespace
characters so that it contains different whitespace characters.

Michael Kay