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   RE: [xml-dev] Xpath Question

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mrys@microsoft.com (Michael Rys) writes:
>XPath 1.0 has no conformance requirement on what data model a parser
>needs to generate.
>
>Unless you have an explicit xml:space="preserve" set, the generation of
>the datamodel as a consumer of the output of the XML parser (which
>always preserves all the whitespace) can drop the boundary whitespace
>text nodes.

Then I guess you're saying that the XPath 1.0 model is useless if you
want a reliably consistent model of a given XML document?  

Oh well.

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Simon St.Laurent
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