Hi Alex,
On 23.02.09 09:54, Alex Brown wrote:
> Dear all,
>
> 1.5 has:
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> ---------begin extract
> "In conformance with the W3C XML specification [XML1.0], optional white-space characters that are contained in elements that have element content are ignored. This applies to the following white-space and end-of-line (EOL) [UNICODE] characters:
>
> HORIZONTAL TABULATION (0x0009)
> LINE FEED (0x000A)
> CARRIAGE RETURN (0x000D)
> SPACE (0x0020)
>
> For any other element, white-spaces are preserved by default. Unless otherwise stated, there is no special processing for any of the four white-space characters."
> ---------end extract
>
> * How is the behaviour in the first sentence in conformance with XML 1.0? "optional whitespace" is only mentioned there in relation to (DTD) validity. I think this phrase should be removed.
>
> * Consider this fragment:
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> Since the