xml-dev - Re: Whitespace

[Sean Mc Grath <digitome@iol.ie>]

[David Durand]
>
>The fact is that whitespace should be controlled by the application.

I disagree. Leaving it to the application lowers the level at which
XML applications can achieve a "lock in effect" on XML documents to
a level that I find worrying.

User A : "What file format is that?"
User B : "It's MicroScape XML."
User A : "I better buy a copy of MicroScape so - otherwise the white space
will get busted again".





xml-dev: A list for W3C XML Developers
Archived as: http://www.lists.ic.ac.uk/hypermail/xml-dev/
To unsubscribe, send to majordomo@ic.ac.uk the following message;
unsubscribe xml-dev
List coordinator, Henry Rzepa (rzepa@ic.ac.uk)