Interesting, Mike; didn't know that. Makes a certain amount of sense, since it's based on the definition of the containing element rather than what it actually contains.
(I've rarely counted on it; I get too many documents thrown at me without DTDs, or am processing in a context where I want to preserve the whitespace, so I've tended to code this into the application semantics instead. Which is probably why I didn't rememberi that simply specifying the DTD was sufficient.) ______________________________________ "You build world of steel and stone I build worlds of words alone Skilled tradespeople, long years taught: You shape matter; I shape thought." (http://www.songworm.com/lyrics/songworm-parody/ShapesofShadow.html) From: Michael Glavassevich <mrgla...@ca.ibm.com> To: j-users@xerces.apache.org Date: 07/11/2011 11:22 PM Subject: Re: dismissing characters such as carriage returns and spaces after an ending and before an starting tag ... The document would need to have a DTD, but you don't need to be validating. Among other things, "ignorable whitespace" is always assessed when the document has a DTD which has been read, regardless of whether you've enabled validation or not. Thanks. Michael Glavassevich XML Parser Development IBM Toronto Lab E-mail: mrgla...@ca.ibm.com E-mail: mrgla...@apache.org kesh...@us.ibm.com wrote on 07/11/2011 10:52:32 PM: > If you are validating against a DTD, and IF the enclosing element > does not have mixed content, look at the SAX/DOM defiinitions of > "ignorable whitespace" and how to handle it. (The term is > unfortunately; it's better described as "whitespace in element-only content") > > If you are not validating the document, the parser can not make this > distinction and you must do so in your application code. > > > ______________________________________ > "You build world of steel and stone > I build worlds of words alone > Skilled tradespeople, long years taught: > You shape matter; I shape thought." > (http://www.songworm.com/lyrics/songworm-parody/ShapesofShadow.html) > > > From: > > Albretch Mueller <lbrt...@gmail.com> > > To: > > j-users@xerces.apache.org > > Date: > > 07/11/2011 06:13 PM > > Subject: > > dismissing characters such as carriage returns and spaces after an > ending and before an starting tag ... > > > > > > ~ > I am XMLRead[er|ing] an XML file (which I am validating using the > specified schema) that looks like this: > ~ > <mediawiki xmlns="http://www.mediawiki.org/xml/export-0.5/"; > xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"; > xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.mediawiki.org/xml/export-0.5/ > http://www.mediawiki.org/xml/export-0.5.xsd"; version="0.5" > xml:lang="en"> > <siteinfo> > <sitename>Wikipedia</sitename> > <base>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page</base> > <generator>MediaWiki 1.17wmf1</generator> > <case>first-letter</case> > <namespaces> > <namespace key="-2" case="first-letter">Media</namespace> > <namespace key="109" case="first-letter">Book talk</namespace> > </namespaces> > </siteinfo> > </mediawiki> > ~ > What do you do in order for the ContentHandler not to report as > "characters" such character sequences after an ending and before an > starting tag? > ~ > Than you > lbrtchx > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: j-users-unsubscr...@xerces.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: j-users-h...@xerces.apache.org
