- From: Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>
- Date: Mon, 6 Nov 2006 05:34:36 +0000 (UTC)
On Sun, 5 Nov 2006, Henri Sivonen wrote: > > Is there a reason why the definition of space characters does not match > the XML 1.0 and RELAX NG definition of white space (space, tab, CR, LF) > but also includes (line tabulation and form feed)? Is the deviation from > XML 1.0 needed for backwards compatibility with text/html UAs? I made the parser consider VT and FF as being whitespace based on, as I recall, a complete examination of every Unicode character's behaviour in the parsers I was testing. The definition of "space characters" matches the parser's behaviour for consistency. The definition of "space characters" doesn't affect the XML parser stage as far as I can recall, only attribute parsing and DOM conformance. -- Ian Hickson U+1047E )\._.,--....,'``. fL http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A /, _.. \ _\ ;`._ ,. Things that are impossible just take longer. `._.-(,_..'--(,_..'`-.;.'
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