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[XOM-interest] XOM Canonicalization: whitespace outside document element

From: Michael Kay <mike AT saxonica.com>
To: XOM API for Processing XML with Java <xom-interest AT lists.ibiblio.org>
Subject: [XOM-interest] XOM Canonicalization: whitespace outside document element
Date: Tue, 10 Apr 2018 17:19:14 +0100

If I canonicalize the document

<?xml-stylesheet type="text/xsl" href="bills.xsl"?>
<Bills/>

I would expect the result

<?xml-stylesheet type="text/xsl" href="bills.xsl"?><Bills></Bills>

But XOM gives me

<?xml-stylesheet type="text/xsl" href="bills.xsl"?>
<Bills></Bills>

That is, it retains the newline after the processing instruction.

The specification (https://www.w3.org/TR/xml-c14n11/#DataModel) says

Whitespace outside of the root document element MUST be discarded.

Is this a bug?

Michael Kay
Saxonica

[XOM-interest] XOM Canonicalization: whitespace outside document element, Michael Kay, 04/10/2018
- Re: [XOM-interest] XOM Canonicalization: whitespace outside document element, Michael Kay, 04/10/2018