He is correct. The normalization of new lines happens at a low level within the parser (by design and by the standard) so that the stream of characters that comes into the parser are already normalized, so clearly that would mean that even CDATA sections are affected.
The reasoning is that new lines have different forms on different platforms, and the normalization allows them to be treated consistently by XML parsers and by the programs that pull data out of the parser after parsing. If you want these things to come through the parser, you must encode them in some way that will be ignored by the parser, before feeding the data to the parser, and then you can expand them (or contract them according to how you look at it) on the other side when you pull the data out of the parser for your own use. Anyway, blame the creators of XML if you have a problem with it, since they defined how and when normalization is done. ------------------------------------- Dean Roddey The Charmed Quark Controller [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.charmedquark.com -----Original Message----- From: Saw [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, April 19, 2004 12:57 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: XERCES - SAXParser: newlines in CDATA sections "CDATA sections don't have any affect on normalization: http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-xml/#sec-cdata-sect"; - I don't see how this follows from the section u've given. That was the question in the first place, and 2.7 does not answer it, neither did u. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
