Re: [xml] xml:space and xml:lang problem

[Daniel Veillard <veillard redhat com>]

On Wed, Jun 08, 2005 at 02:41:36PM -0400, Rob Richards wrote:
> Looks like xml:space is broken as of 2.6.0 with sax2
> Running xmllint --noblanks on the following:
> <doc>
>   <e1>
>      <e2 xml:space="preserve">
>         <e3 id="E3"/>
>      </e2>
>   </e1>
> </doc>
> 
> ignores the preserve while it doesn't in 2.5.x (different function call)
> xml:lang has the same issue
> 
> Attached is the patch I'm using for it - moved some things around as well.

  I'm not against applying the patch, but could you give a few lines of
explanations ? xmllint --noblanks is not conformant "by design", but I think
I understand what it's about, I would just like to be sure. I assume
the xml:lang is about checking the value, we (W3C XML Core WG) relaxed this 
a lot in the second edition of the XML specification. I would say 
xml:lang warnings should only be raised in pedantic mode at this point,
note also that xml:lang="" may be used too.

Daniel

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