RE: pretty printer and PCDATA

[Pieter Rijken <pieter.rijken@xxxxxx>]

Hello Stephane,

> > I guess this was adressed in the past, but can't remember 
> how or find
> > a solution.
> 
> It *seems* you were bitten by the infamous "Significant 
> white-space in XML" 
> problem, in its "Valid white-space in PCDATA" variant.
> 
> >           <nmlist nametype="entity">entity5
> >           </nmlist>
> 
> The spaces before the end-tag and the end-of-line after 
> "entity5" are legal 
> PCDATA and even Jade, which knowns your DTD, cannot find there are 
> semantically insignificant.
> 
> > Does anyone know of a solution or a workaround ?

The (i think) easiest solution is to define in your dtd:

<!ELEMENT nmlist - - (#PCDATA)>      (NOT (#PCDATA)* !!)
<!ATTLIST nmlist ...>

and have in DSSSL the extra spaces trimmed off:

(element nmlist (process-children-trim))

regards,

pieter


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