- From: Paul Prescod <papresco@calum.csclub.uwaterloo.ca>
- Date: Wed, 11 Dec 1996 16:33:27 -0500
- To: Tim Bray <tbray@textuality.com>, w3c-sgml-wg@w3.org
At 12:01 PM 12/11/96 -0800, Tim Bray wrote: >o Some applications, e.g. full-text indexers, really need to know where > everything is by byte offset, whether or not the bytes are significant; > thus the -XML-SPACE="COLLAPSE" behavior means they can't read the text > with an XML processor (unless they can turn off -XML-SPACE processing > through the API) I don't really think that this is difficult to solve. How is this situation any different than that of <!-- comments -->? Just as an application may optionally ask the parser to return comments, it should be able to ask for insignificant whitespace. Paul Prescod
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