On 5/4/07, Werner Guttmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Which I think is actually valid, as you don't specify (anywhere) that you want whitespaces to be preserved. I hope I am not wrong with this, but one option would be (by the means of a mapping file) to specify that you want whitespaces to be preserved.
I don't think you're correct here. This whitespace is significant since it doesn't occur between elements. It mus be preserved. See http://www.oracle.com/technology/pub/articles/wang-whitespace.html and http://xml.silmaril.ie/authors/whitespace/ I would urge Castor to preserve all whitespace and to not introduce any, not even any insignificant whitespace by default. For instance, we're using Castor to produce text that we'd like to process using line-based tools, such as "readLine()" functions or regular expressions. We'd like to send it over a TCP socket which uses line-based readers/writers at either end. It would be an extreme hassle having to remove newlines castors introduces before we could do that. (CodeSynthesis's XSD/C++ product, unfortunately, decided to introduce insignificant whitespace by default, which required us to change it before we could use it.) If you want, you could - optionally - introduce a "format" or "pretty-print" option, similar to xmllint -format or similar to say SimpleXML's "format => 1" option - but please make this optional, and not the default. - Godmar --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe from this list please visit: http://xircles.codehaus.org/manage_email
