> > See section 3.3.3 of the XML specification. If I've read it
> > correctly, parsers must strip leading and trailing whitespace and
> > compress internal whitespace to a single space for attribute values
> > declared as something other than CDATA. However, "All attributes for
> > which no declar
"Jesse Pelton" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> See section 3.3.3 of the XML specification. If I've read it
> correctly, parsers must strip leading and trailing whitespace and
> compress internal whitespace to a single space for attribute values
> declared as something other than CDATA. However, "Al
> On Sat, 15 Dec 2001, "Dean" == Dean Roddey wrote:
Dean> not imply the same thing that a *CDATA Section* means in
Dean> the body of an XML document, which means "don't be messin
Dean> with my stuff".
My understanding is that whitespace normalization
happens even in CDATA _sections_.
Yeh, that's true. Normalization is done at the low character spooling level,
so its done always really. The only time its not done at that level is when
what's being spooled is an internal entity, which has already been
normalized during its initial parse, so one way or another the normalization
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