On Monday 03 February 2003 16:05, Robin Berjon wrote: > No, not really. You'd need to have a DTD (or XML Schema, but lets not > go there) declaring in which elements is whitespace significant and > in which it isn't.
OK, I don't understand that, but never mind. > I'd say that having a way of telling the taglib helpers that "in this > element, whitespace is irrelevant" would be helpful because people > are bound to be bitten by that and not necesarily know why because > programming habits get us into the habit that indentation is > irrelevant (except in That Other Language, but well...). I'm not sure > that paying attention to xml:space is useful though, it's probably > something that can be simply specified at the taglib level (makes it > easier too). Yup. And SimpleTaglib has a keepWhitespace input attribute, so there has been work in that direction. I just felt that if there is some nice way to do it that would not be specific to taglibs, it would be cool... :-) > Taglib helpers doing that would simply s/^\s*//, s/\s*$//, and s/\s+/ > /. Certainly! Cheers, Kjetil -- Kjetil Kjernsmo Astrophysicist/IT Consultant/Skeptic/Ski-orienteer/Orienteer/Mountaineer [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Homepage: http://www.kjetil.kjernsmo.net/ OpenPGP KeyID: 6A6A0BBC --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
