Andy Clark wrote:<<<
So how about the following ID?
http://apache.org/xml/features/dom/include-ignorable-whitespace
It's getting a little verbose but that's probably erring on
the side of understandability.>>>
This is a definite improvement over the original name (which gave no clue to
the sense of the operation). Personally though I'd prefer to reverse the
sense of the name and call it something like strip-ignorable-whitespace. I
also feel that the default should be "keep it". (Assaf Arkin obvously has a
very different view of things.)
More importantly I'm not too happy about this concept of "ignoreable
whitespace". What's the definition of "ignoreable"? Will it suit
everybody? Is there a danger that it will be not quite right for anybody?
My instinct is to classify things in a bit more detail. I haven't applied
XML to a wide-enough range of applications to be confident but I suspect
that these three white-space handling options make sense:
1) prune text nodes that consist only of white space
2) trim leading/trailing space
3) normalize sequences of white-space characters to a single space.
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