xml:space

Okay, now I'm troubled:

I'm testing my implementation with some sample adobe files. And it turns out
that I must have completely misunderstood something regarding parsing xml
files.

<g>[white space]<ellipse/>[white space]</g>

will the above xml create text nodes for the [white space] parts?

Does it depend on the xml:space attribute? (will it only create text nodes
when set to preserve and not do it when set to default?)

thanks,

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Sigurd Lerstad