REC-xml-19980210: whitespace

John Cowan cowan at locke.ccil.org
Thu Oct 15 21:08:19 BST 1998


David Brownell wrote:

> Moreover, 2.10 says (albeit oddly) that CRLF gets normalized
> to LF everywhere, and the LF would get normalized to a single
> space inside of an attribute (or Public Identifier) value.

Hmmm.  Real CRLFs get normalized to LFs, but does that apply
to the appearance of "
"?  I think not.
In attribute values, however, 
 
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