Assaf Arkin wrote:
<<<In my opinion the DOM should never include ignorable whitespace>>>
My instinct would be to agree but remember our HTML heritage: I'm not sure
that it's possible to defined what white-space is "ignorable" in a general
way. In data-oriented applications of XML fierce normalization of space is
probably desirable but in applications that are dealing more with marked-up
text (I guess that XML is trying to support these too) you've got to
preserve more white space. Consider
<B>bold</B> <I>italic</I>
That's going to map to three DOM nodes:
<element name='B' value='bold'/>
<text value=' '/>
<element name='I' value='italic'/>
Although the second node is a "white-space text-node" and so is, in general,
a prime candidate for pruning it can't be pruned in this markup-centric
[yeeuch!] application.
-- jP --
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