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Re: XML apparently cannot be used for general text markup: whitespace gripe
- From: David Carlisle <davidc at nag dot co dot uk>
- To: xsl-list at lists dot mulberrytech dot com
- Date: Tue, 19 Mar 2002 12:25:34 GMT
- Subject: Re: [xsl] XML apparently cannot be used for general text markup: whitespace gripe
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> The author of the XML, as well as the stylesheet writer, needs to know
> whether or not whitespace is significant. In mixed content, it usually is.
which is why it's "annoying" that IE, being a document browser, (ie,
typically receiving mixed content) decides to parse incoming xml
documents with MSXML's ignore white space flag set to true.....
David
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