XML and Using It With Whitespace

[David Megginson]

Tim Bray writes:

 > Now, the downside of this is that you can't do 
 > 
 > <msg>
 >  <field1 val='1'/>
 >  <field2 val='2'/>
 >  </msg>
 > 
 > and have that treated as identical to
 > 
 > <msg><field1 val='1'/><field2 val='2'/></msg>
 > 
 > i.e. no auto-magic facility to ignore pretty-printing.
 > No XML processor in the world, regardless of the DTD in play is allowed
 > to refrain from passing you the line-breaks and spaces in the
 > first example.

True, but with a DTD and a DTD-aware XML parser, your application can
easily choose discard that additional whitespace.


All the best,


David

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