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

[Sean McGrath <sean@digitome.com>]

At 07:56 AM 10/31/00 -0500, you wrote:
>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.

It is not quite that simple. Consider this:-
<Example
                 type    = "Simple   Example"
                 purpose =            "illustrative">
</Example>

Most of the tabs and spaces in the above document are not
passed to the application.

regards,

Sean