- From: Bjoern Hoehrmann <derhoermi@gmx.net>
- Date: Wed, 01 Feb 2006 14:39:57 +0100
- To: Anne van Kesteren <fora@annevankesteren.nl>
- Cc: www-archive@w3.org
* Anne van Kesteren wrote: >Quoting Bjoern Hoehrmann <derhoermi@gmx.net>: >>> So if a tool wants to mess with your whitespace, it simply cannot >>> avoid the possibility that it will break some documents. >> >> Well, I'd say that's why the XML gods gave us xml:space... > >Too bad these gods messed with attribute value whitespace handling: ><http://www.w3.org/TR/2004/REC-xml-20040204/#AVNormalize> How so? If you want to have your white space preserved, use character references and CDATA. What they really messed up there is the crazy moon language in "It is an error if an attribute value contains a reference to an entity for which no declaration has been read" which does not make much sense to say the least. -- Björn Höhrmann · mailto:bjoern@hoehrmann.de · http://bjoern.hoehrmann.de Weinh. Str. 22 · Telefon: +49(0)621/4309674 · http://www.bjoernsworld.de 68309 Mannheim · PGP Pub. KeyID: 0xA4357E78 · http://www.websitedev.de/
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