Re: XML, DOM and "ignorable" whitespace

>The long and the short is that this is a tough problem but it is also
>disappointing from a basic developer point of view none the less.

"We're making mistakes as fast as we can..."

As I said: It's on the list of issues for DOM Level 3. Level 2 considered
it but decided it couldn't be done properly without DTD support.

Early filtering of the tree ("lazy initialization", as you called it) is
certainly possible. Maybe the Load/Save chapter of DOM Level 3 can look at
that side of the issue. If not, I expect custom solutions will continue to
exist on a DOM-builder-by-DOM-builder basis, though that wouldn't be as
portable.
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Joe Kesselman  / IBM Research