On Feb 4, 2010, at 7:09 AM, Daniel Veillard wrote: > On Thu, Feb 04, 2010 at 08:53:42AM -0500, Piotr Sipika wrote: >> John, >> Try parsing the document using: >> xmlReadFile(URI, encoding, options) >> with options set to XML_PARSE_NOBLANKS (in addition to anything else >> you want to use) > > Honnestly, I think it's a bad advice in general. The blank nodes > used for "formatting" are an integral part of the XML document content > and users should rather learn XML and do the right thing than tweak the > parser to become non conformant.
Ah! Got your attention. What is the "right thing" to do? Specifically: the DTD contains information about where whitespace is significant; how is this information represented in the parsed tree? Duplicating the knowledge about where whitespace is significant seems fragile. Thanks! John Clements
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