On 6/15/07, Dave Watts wrote: > > needed there - or anything else you can think of. Just because whitespace > is > unimportant to you, doesn't mean that it's unimportant to everyone else.
I've always kinda liked the whole eastern perspective on space, and how the emptiness is as important as the not empty. That whole tree bit. Grand stuff! For the bit of XML I did for an app that treated whitespace (newlines, etc.) as nodes, the XML was horrible for humans. Pretty sad when you can't edit it with a plain text editor and still understand it. But I understand what's going on, and this stuff wasn't bad: http://www.xml.com/axml/target.html#sec-white-space Makes sense now. I think in general I prefer the "ignore whitespace" types of deals tho. For my noggin. For transferring, wipe it all out and put it on a single line, sure. Makes things smaller anyways. Course, you can't do that with non-elemented nodes, or non-marked up content, or whatnot. Double course, this variation (if you don't declare how to handle space) seems like it would mess up the whole idea of XML-- that one XML file does X here, and does X there, too. Hmmm... gotta love standards and specs and whatnot, neh? =-) Expexially since most examples are in the "human readable" mode! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Create robust enterprise, web RIAs. Upgrade & integrate Adobe Coldfusion MX7 with Flex 2 http://www.adobe.com/products/coldfusion/flex2/?sdid=RVJP Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/message.cfm/messageid:281333 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4
