Re: "Empty" Text Nodes

• From: Lauren Wood <lauren@sqwest.bc.ca>
• Date: Mon, 01 Mar 1999 12:31:14 -0800
• To: www-dom@w3.org
• Message-ID: <36DAF912.25207275@sqwest.bc.ca>

Arkin wrote:
> 
> The application should somehow learn when whitespace appearing in the
> element content is significant or not, and potentially be able to
> control it as it is delivered from the parser. 

So your concrete proposal is that DOM Level 2 Core add something
like an "isignorablewhitespace" property to Text nodes? If you put
your proposals in a concrete form, it does make it easier to
understand precisely what it is that you want. 

Lauren

Received on Monday, 1 March 1999 15:31:51 UTC