RE: Comment on Canonical XML draft of 2000-06-01, clause A.3

Hi John,
> 3) Whitespace Text node descendants of the root.  The toolsets' 
> elimination
> of this whitespace would seem to be in contradiction of section 
> 2.10 of the
> XML spec.  However, the point is moot since the problem can be 
> solved by the
> same idea as #2 above.  The XPath expression to opt out of this is given.
> Therefore, if your particular XML processsor can't support their 
> inclusion,
> then set up your application context such that it is clear that you are
> using something with behavior that is equivalent to the XPath expression
> provided.

Since neither the XML Infoset [1] nor the XPath data model [2] allow text
children in the root element, I don't see a good foundation for your 
interpretation of [3]. 

Regards, Gregor
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