xml-dev - RE: tabs to indent for pretty-printing (is it correct?)

[David Megginson <david@megginson.com>]

David Valera writes:

 [on converting spaces to tabs]

 > Well, it is my inderstanding of the XML spec that it actually
 > *does* change the actual content since in the first example there
 > are a few textnodes (with tabs in it) that are not present in the
 > second example. An XML processor must always pass all characters in
 > a document. Tabs and spaces are such characters.

Correct.

 > If I read the XML spec correctly, adding tabs and spaces to increase
 > readability is often done, but it is not intended to be saved as such
 > (significant whitespace excluded of course).

That's application-specific; i.e. the parser passes all of the
characters (including whitespace) to the application, then the
application decides what is and isn't significant for its purposes.


All the best,


David

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