+1 For leaving the whitespace in, by default, for reasons stated by Arnaud and agreed upon by Scott and Tim. As well as the fact that the DOM tree should be the same regardless of whether a DTD was present in order to figure out what text nodes can be flagged as "ignorable".
Okay, so it sounds like we have agreement. I will add the feature as agreed upon. feature ID: http://apache.org/xml/features/dom/include-ignorable-whitespace default: true -- Andy Clark * IBM, JTC - Silicon Valley * [EMAIL PROTECTED]
