Re: [xsl] XML apparently cannot be used for general text markup: whitespace gripe

Subject: Re: [xsl] XML apparently cannot be used for general text markup: whitespace gripe
From: David Carlisle <davidc@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 19 Mar 2002 12:25:34 GMT
> 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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