XOM API for Processing XML with Java

["Michael Kay" <mike AT saxonica.com>]

> > A tab means indent. Nothing more, nothing less.
> 
> Tab has no meaning, it's just a character.  The context is what
> determines "meaning".

It's an old debate whether characters have meaning. Unicode says they do:
which is why two characters can "look the same" and still have different
codes.

But tab is only a character because someone goofed. Thank heavens we no
longer store backspace as a character in text files: tab should have gone
the same way.

Michael Kay
http://www.saxonica.com/