XOM API for Processing XML with Java

[Elliotte Harold <elharo AT metalab.unc.edu>]

Wolfgang Hoschek wrote:

> > Do you really need the carriage returns here? The XML parser is  going 
> > to normalize all carriage returns and carriage return/ linefeed pairs 
> > in the input document to linefeeds when parsing. A  carriage return is 
> > only gong to appear if the user has used a  numeric character 
> > reference to specially insert a carriage return.  That does happen but 
> > it's quite uncommon. I
>
> It doesn't hurt to play it safe. Parser behaviour may unexpectedly  change.

In this case the parser behavior is not going to change unless the XML 
spec changes, which doesn't seem very likely. Converting carriage 
returns to line feeds is a written into the spec. A parser that failed 
to do this would be non-conformant.


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