- From: Paul Prescod <papresco@calum.csclub.uwaterloo.ca>
- Date: Wed, 11 Dec 1996 18:19:53 -0500
- To: gtn@ebt.com (Gavin Nicol), lee@sq.com
- Cc: w3c-sgml-wg@w3.org, tbray@textuality.com
At 05:23 PM 12/11/96 -0500, Gavin Nicol wrote: >Very simple summary of my position: > >1) Pass back all whitespace. >2) Have the application layers(s) decide what to remove, and what > not to remove. A validation layer could be 8879 conformant if so > desired. Is this not the same as the current specification? "In editing XML documents, it is often convenient to use "white space" (spaces, tabs, and blank lines, denoted by the nonterminal S in this specification) to set apart the markup for greater readability. Such white space is typically not intended for inclusion in the delivered version of the document. On the other hand, "significant" white space that must be retained in the delivered version is common; for example in poetry or source code. In element content, all white space (S) is ignored; validating XML processors must not pass it to the application. Non-validating processors which do not read the DTD must treat all elements as if they were declared with mixed content; this will in some cases result in a different parse tree from that produced by processors which do read the DTD." Paul Prescod
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