Ted Leung wrote: > > How about we add a feature that allows people to turn this > behavior on or off, with the default behavior that ignorable whitespace > is not include in the DOM?
+1 on on/off feature +1 on on by default (i.e. no whitespace unless said otherwise) +1 on documenting that you have to go trim your text nodes and ignore others if the DTD is missing (conclusion: always use some DTD) arkin > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Assaf Arkin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent: Thursday, January 06, 2000 1:04 PM > Subject: Re: Pretty print problem in serializer in 1.0.1 > > > In my opinion the DOM should never include ignorable whitespace and > > Xerces should be fixed to ignore that. The DOM present the information > > model and these white spaces, whether they originated in your text > > editor or in the pretty printer, are not informative. > > > > ProjectX and OpenXML do not include such whitespace in the DOM. > > > > arkin > > > > > > "Pardoe, Julian" wrote: > > > > > > Assaf Arkin [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > <<<The Xerces parser insists on adding whitespaces in the original > document > > > into the DOM as text nodes. [...] If you extract all these whitespaces > from > > > the original personal.xml [...]>>> > > > > > > Doesn't this suggest that DOM should have some standard facility for > pruning > > > white-space text nodes from the tree? ...or for never adding them to > the > > > tree in the first place. It's something a lot of people are going to > want. > > > A facility for normalization of white space within text-nodes might also > be > > > handy. > > > > > > -- 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. > >
