Re: [xml-dev] Whitespace following a text declaration

["G. Ken Holman" <gkholman@CraneSoftwrights.com>]

At 2006-02-05 20:34 +0000, Michael Kay wrote:
>Given an external parsed entity of the form:
>
><?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" ?>
><extEnt attr="x"><sub2>z</sub2></extEnt>
>
>I'm surprised to discover that the parser in .NET includes the newline after
>the text declaration as part of the entity's expanded text, while both
>Crimson and Xerces (the versions built into JDK 1.4 and JDK 1.5
>respectively) exclude the newline.
>
>I can't see any justification for excluding the newline: is this a
>non-conformance?

Given XML http://www.w3.org/TR/2004/REC-xml-20040204 production 77 
for a text declaration does not include a newline and production 78 
states that content immediately follows the text declaration, I agree 
that the newline should be part of content.

In my book materials I extensively use external parsed general 
entities comprised solely of text, most of which are generated as 
output from XSLT, and I wouldn't expect any characters to be removed 
when they are used.

. . . . . . . . . . . Ken


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