> My understanding is that white space outside of tags > is not significant and between tags IS significant.
If you know that you are in element content. > > So if you had a pretty-printed XML doc, the CRLF and > tags would be ignorable, but the stuff between tags > can't be thrown away: > > <x> > <y> Can't toss the leading or trailing blanks </y> > <!-- tabs and newlines can be ignored --> > </x> > > If M$ is assuming that whitespace in element content > is ignorable, I'd have to disagree. - MOD Sorry, I wasn't trying to give a description of the algorithm that MSXML uses to determine when whitespace is ignorable when it does not have a Document Type Description, other than they use an algorithm and though they guess well, it is still a guess. The description of the behavior of javax.xml.parsers.DocumentBuilderFactory.setIgnoringElementContentWhitespace describes the behavior for JAXP compatible parsers in more detail. setIgnoringElementContentWhitespace public void setIgnoringElementContentWhitespace(boolean whitespace) Specifies that the parsers created by this factory must eliminate whitespace in element content (sometimes known loosely as 'ignorable whitespace') when parsing XML documents (see XML Rec 2.10). Note that only whitespace which is directly contained within element content that has an element only content model (see XML Rec 3.2.1) will be eliminated. Due to reliance on the content model this setting requires the parser to be in validating mode. By default the value of this is set to false. Parameters: whitespace - true if the parser created must eliminate whitespace in the element content when parsing XML documents; false otherwise. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
