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Re: Is whitespace within general entities ignorable?
- From: John Cowan <jcowan@reutershealth.com>
- To: Tim Bray <tbray@textuality.com>
- Date: Wed, 28 Feb 2001 16:06:03 -0500
Tim Bray wrote:
> In my experience, John Cowan is one of those People Who Is
> Usually Right.
*wide-eyed astonishment*
> I must say though, that I'm having trouble
> agreeing with him on this one. John, did this get covered
> in one of the errata?
No.
> What does actual real-world software do with this?
Nsgmls in -xml mode, which is not a fully compliant XML processor, accepts it
as valid. This is a good indication that it was "supposed to work".
So I suppose I am wrong.
I will bring it up to the Core WG.
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