Re: pretty printer and PCDATA (summary)

[Stephane Bortzmeyer <bortzmeyer@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Wednesday 8 September 1999, at 15 h 12, the keyboard of Jany Quintard 
<quintard.j@xxxxxx> wrote:

> This seems a very correct answer. And the more I think to it, I don't find
> a reason that allow me to *modify* the content of an element containing
> PCDATA by pretty-printing it.

It can produce <emphasis>nice</emphasis> side-effects if the space before 
"side-effects" or after "produce" is removed :-) (Mixed content is not easy.)

My Perl script which trims white-space use several heuristics to try to find 
out if it is significant or no an it fails quite often.

 



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