SAX: Whitespace Handling (question 5 of 10)

[Peter Murray-Rust]

At 13:02 03/01/98 -0500, David Megginson wrote:
>
>Should SAX allow DTD-driven parsers to distinguish ignorable
>whitespace from other character data?
>
NO. 
IMO the XML community has not had enough experience of ignorable whitespace
to agree on how to treat it. It can only be ignored if enough DTD-related
information is given. I believe that anyone who needs to deal with it is
probably going to have to use this themselves. In time I very much hope
that we *shall* come up with protocols for this.

	P.


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