Assaf Arkin wrote: <<<No problem. If you cannot specify in the DTD that whitespace is ignoreable, it gets reported.>>>
Yeah, so the poor programmer is back to square one, having to prune the space himself. I still feel that since the way white space should be handled is very app-specific the best way of handling this is not to try and second guess the app programmer by examining the DTD or applying other rules. As Tim Bray said "a lot of smart people have wasted a lot of time trying to write down simple rules". The implication is that it can't be done. (I certainly didn't like the rule you proposed. Not all #PCDATA is the same. I have applications where I use #PCDATA in a very restricted way and would want "fierce normalization" (including the pruning of blank text nodes) to be applied.) The best we can do is to help the app programmer handle his app-specific rules by providing facilities that handle certain common cases for him. Lots of people are going to want to strip white-space text nodes. Xerces or DOM should provide the mechanism (via methods or properties) but leave it up to the app programmer to decide the policy of whether these mechanisms should be applied or not. -- jP -- This message is for the named person's use only. It may contain confidential, proprietary or legally privileged information. No confidentiality or privilege is waived or lost by any mistransmission. If you receive this message in error, please immediately delete it and all copies of it from your system, destroy any hard copies of it and notify the sender. You must not, directly or indirectly, use, disclose, distribute, print, or copy any part of this message if you are not the intended recipient. CREDIT SUISSE GROUP, CREDIT SUISSE FIRST BOSTON, and each of their subsidiaries each reserve the right to monitor all e-mail communications through its networks. Any views expressed in this message are those of the individual sender, except where the message states otherwise and the sender is authorised to state them to be the views of any such entity.
