On Fri, 2013-04-05 at 11:15 +0200, Michael Piotrowski wrote:
> On 2013-04-05, Michael Seiferle <m...@basex.org> wrote:
> chopping certainly *does* change the
> semantics--that's precisely why I've argued before that it shouldn't be
> on by default.

Agreed, but Christian has already said it will be off by default in the
next release.

I have seen a commercial SGML formatter that had a similar behaviour
used for aircraft manuals, where there was actually a possibility of
lives lost and unlimited civil damage liability as a result of numbers
run together, but I failed to get the people in charge to understand why
it made a difference.

>  (and
> BaseX doesn't honor xml:space either).
The latest snapshot does.

Liam

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