Poster at Kinetium dot Com wrote: > I think this is due to XML's rules about whitespace, which boil down to: > whitespace is significant and affects content, even a space or > newline between <a>...<b></b></a>. > > Those rules make sense when dealing with data (why would you have a > newline at the end of the FIrstName field?), but make human consumption > of raw xml very painful. > > I have encountered this problem very often, and it drives me crazy!! > Would it be feasible for xmlMind to offer options to > - "strip all leading and trailing whitespace", and
No, unless attribute xml:space="preserve" is set for an element, an application is allowed to do whatever it wants with white space. In our opinion, XXE already does a pretty good job at stripping ignoreable whitespace. > - "save with indenting=x": x = -1 means no indent at all; 0 or more > means indent to look like an outline. Such options already exist. See the Options dialog box, Save tab.
