XOM API for Processing XML with Java

["John Cowan" <jcowan AT reutershealth.com>]

Elliotte Rusty Harold scripsit:

> You should note that preserving white space in attributes is *very* 
> tricky. Parsers often remove, trim, and compress white space in 
> attributes before XOM ever sees them.

Parsers MUST change line terminators to spaces in attribute values.

If a parser knows that an attribute has a type other than CDATA (and
attribute declarations in the internal subset MUST NOT be ignored), then
the parser MUST further trim all leading and trailing spaces, and
compress all runs of spaces to a single space, in values of that attribute.
This is quite independent of whether the parser validates or not.

If you want to get line terminators into attribute values, use character
references.

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