SAX: Whitespace Handling (question 5 of 10)

[James Clark]

David Megginson wrote:

> Should SAX allow DTD-driven parsers to distinguish ignorable
> whitespace from other character data?
> 
>   public void ignorableWhitespace (char ch[], int length);

Tough call.  (If we have it, it needs an offset argument as well.)

If we do this, then the stub (adapter) class should do

void ignorableWhitespace(char ch[], int off, int count) {
  charData(ch, off, count);
}

This means that users who don't care about the difference can just
ignore it.

James


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