Re: Where did all the spaces come from?

["W. Eliot Kimber" <eliot@xxxxxxxxxx>]

At 01:37 PM 6/12/98 -0400, Graydon Hoare wrote:
>On Fri, 12 Jun 1998, Justin Jay Sako wrote:
>
>> Can anyone tell me why I receive all these spaces in my output (and how
to get rid of them)?  (This is just a test file I threw together)
>
>Sure. Look at your input file. You're indenting your XML. The indentation
>spacing is whitespace too. Jade is just preserving your whitespace for
>you. 

It also makes a difference if you have explicit element type declarations.
If you have explicit declarations that don't allow #PCDATA where the white
space occurs, you won't get the spaces. However, without a DTD, the parser
has to assume that all white space is data and thus passes it through.

Cheers,

E.
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