Re: RFC: White Space Handling In XML Parsing

Steven Champeon wrote:

> <a href="http://example.com">
> <img src="/images/example.gif">
> </a>
> 
> and when it displays in the browser, there is a blue underline tail
> hanging off the bottom right edge of the graphic, because the whitespace
> is reduced to one space, which is then underlined.

That's a rendering bug.  SGML applications are not even supposed to
see such newlines (parsers should drop one just after a start tag and
one just before an end-tag).  This doesn't apply to XML parsers,
which must return *all* character data.

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John Cowan	http://www.ccil.org/~cowan		cowan@ccil.org
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Received on Thursday, 20 May 1999 13:00:16 UTC