At 01:04 PM 1/6/00 -0800, Assaf Arkin wrote: >In my opinion the DOM should never include ignorable whitespace and >Xerces should be fixed to ignore that.
There is no such thing as ignoreable whitespace. There is a special case where you have a DTD handy (lots of XML applications don't) and you know that the whitespace is in what's called an element-content model, and the XML spec requires this situation to be reported. There are two fallacies at work here: 1. The DTD is always available. This is false for the huge majority of existing XML apps 2. It's easy to figure out which white-space is significant. Trust me on this, a lot of smart people have wasted a lot of time trying to write down simple rules. It's totally application-specific. -Tim
