Re: [xml-dev] XML Redux, ws

[Michael Kay <mike@saxonica.com>]

On 17/02/2011 08:00, Dave Pawson wrote:
> The white space issue
>
> How are each of the ws areas (___) to be treated?
> What can be learned from XML 1.0?
> Particularly between the docbook bold and italic?
>

In the format I was proposing, whitespace within <Z>...</Z> is 
significant, whitespace outside that is insignificant. This is a 
consequence of using angle-bracket markup only for fragments of text, 
not for structured data or metadata.

Michael Kay
Saxonica