- From: Martin Atkins <mart@degeneration.co.uk>
- Date: Tue, 23 Jan 2007 21:15:02 +0000
Anne van Kesteren wrote: > > xml:space can't affect the tree being formed as far as I know. It's not > entirely clear to me what its use is anyway, except in SVG, where they > defined it in a funny way to make it do something. > Presumably its primary purpose is to act as a signal to generic XML tools ? that don't have any special knowledge about XHTML ? that they should not screw around with the whitespace inside PRE, etc. One obvious example of such a tool is an XML pretty-printer. While an HTML pretty-printer like HTML Tidy can have rules "hard-coded" into it, this is not true of a non-validating XML formatter unless it is specifically written for XHTML.
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