Thanks for the reply Daniel, I see your point. Regards,
Pavan. -----Original Message----- From: Daniel Veillard [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, February 02, 2006 5:30 AM To: Vedantam, Pavan Cc: [email protected] Subject: Re: [xml] Preserving space when adding and deleting XML Nodes On Wed, Feb 01, 2006 at 11:19:22AM -0800, Vedantam, Pavan wrote: > > Hi, > > I followed up previous > posts(http://mail.gnome.org/archives/xml/2005-September/msg00094.html) > , > and it seems the whitespace that is left when you delete a Node in the > xml file must be handled via code, my question is, how do you know that > it is an empty text node and then delete it. Precisely, you can't at the pure XML level. Only the application can know if this is significant or not, and this is why all white spaces are preserved by the parser and toolkit by default. Daniel -- Daniel Veillard | Red Hat http://redhat.com/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] | libxml GNOME XML XSLT toolkit http://xmlsoft.org/ http://veillard.com/ | Rpmfind RPM search engine http://rpmfind.net/ _______________________________________________ xml mailing list, project page http://xmlsoft.org/ [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/xml
