XOM API for Processing XML with Java

[Wolfgang Hoschek <whoschek AT lbl.gov>]

I concurr with Alex. While mixing tabs and spaces doesn't work well  
in practise, people should ideally be able to work XOM with either  
tabs or spaces, whichever fits them best. Clearly XML allows for  
both, and there's no interop problem anywhere. (For example, XML  
processor leave a tab as a tab rather than expanding it to N spaces)

The discussion about whether a character has meaning may be of  
theoretic relevance, but it's hardly of practical value to folks that  
just want to ident with tabs, perhaps to save some file space. Let's  
keep it practical.

Wolfgang.

On Oct 5, 2005, at 1:57 PM, Alex Blewitt wrote:

> --- Elliotte Harold <elharo AT metalab.unc.edu> wrote:
>
>
> > Noam Tamim wrote:
> >
> > > Slightly off topic, but can you please elaborate
> > on that? I see only
> >
> > > benefits to using tabs instead of spaces. I'm
> > interested in the trouble
> >
> > > you think it causes.
> >
> > No different in XML than in Java or C. Tabs aren't
> > interoperable. Spaces
> > are.
>
> I indent all my Java and XML files with tabs, and they
> work fine on Macs, Linux and Windows, and all the
> editors I use with them work fine with tabs. Perhaps
> you could expand on your assertion a little further?
>
> Alex.
>
>
>
>
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