Re: xml:space

• From: Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>
• Date: Mon, 7 Jul 2003 08:14:45 -0700 (PDT)
• To: Sigurd Lerstad <sigler@bredband.no>
• Cc: "www-talk@w3.org" <www-talk@w3.org>
• Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.56.0307070814040.2646@dhalsim.dreamhost.com>

On Mon, 7 Jul 2003, Sigurd Lerstad wrote:
>
> <g>[white space]<ellipse/>[white space]</g>
>
> 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?)

As I understand it, xml:space="preserve" guarentees text nodes in the
above snippet, and xml:space="default" makes it UA-dependent.

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