XOM API for Processing XML with Java

[Elliotte Rusty Harold <elharo AT ibiblio.org>]

On Thu, Aug 13, 2009 at 5:54 AM, Peter Taylor<peter.taylor AT greenhat.com> 
wrote:

> Since the spec tells you how attribute whitespace is normalized could
> one not, with care, write out attributes with formatting/indentation
> such that the whitespace changes would be removed by the normalization
> when the document is then read?
>
> Leaving aside whether this SHOULD be done, would you agree that this
> could be done?

Sure, and they're a few other tricks one could play with white space
inside tags too. In general though, applications that create pretty
printed output don't treat white space as significant.

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Elliotte Rusty Harold
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