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Re: How to ignore whitespaces

From: <keshlam@us.ibm.com>
Date: Mon, 20 Mar 2000 12:11:26 -0500
cc: "'www-dom@w3.org'" <www-dom@w3.org>
Message-ID: <852568A8.005E6CB1.00@D51MTA03.pok.ibm.com> 
The DOM hasn't architected a mechanism for recognizing whitespaces in
element context (sometimes called "ignorable whitespace"). That requires
DTD support, which is expected in DOM Level 3.

Meanwhile, you're stuck with searching your parser's documentation to see
if they have a custom/nonportable mechanism for recognizing these.

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Joe Kesselman  / IBM Research
Received on Monday, 20 March 2000 12:12:22 GMT

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