RE: Carriage returns within attribute values

[Mike Brown <mbrown@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Sébastien Bouchet wrote:
> I tried to change the XML file : <elt att="firstword 
> secondword"> 
> But it doesn't help : the \n is processed like a white space.
> Is there a standard way to achive this goal, a kind of 
> <elt att="firstword\nsecondword"> ?

No, because whitespace in attribute values is collapsed to a single space,
and leading & trailing whitespace is removed, according to section 3.3.3 of
the XML 1.0 spec.
See http://www.w3.org/TR/1998/REC-xml-19980210.html#AVNormalize

Yet another one for the "when to use elements instead of attributes" FAQ...


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