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Re: [XOM-interest] Extra white space escaping to preserve the infoset

From: John Cowan <jcowan AT reutershealth.com>
To: Elliotte Rusty Harold <elharo AT metalab.unc.edu>
Cc: xom-interest AT lists.ibiblio.org
Subject: Re: [XOM-interest] Extra white space escaping to preserve the infoset
Date: Wed, 9 Jul 2003 17:32:05 -0400

Elliotte Rusty Harold scripsit:

> Here's a question: why would a user set the line terminator at all if
> they do not want the serializer to adjust the white space? Without
> also calling setMaxLength or setIndent, setLineSeparator is very
> close to a no-op.

Because I'm a {Unix,Windows,Mac} weenie and I want to make sure that the
output meets the {Unix,Windows,Mac} conventions for plain text; i.e.
I expect that the next processing stage is not necessarily XML-aware.

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