Re: [xml] xmllint add newline after each return ...

[Daniel Veillard <veillard redhat com>]

On Fri, Aug 24, 2001 at 12:39:00PM +0200, Jean-Charles Preaux wrote:
> Hello
>
> I tried to appply the xmllint script to an XML document
> ./xmllint --debug /opt/studio/htdocs/html/vcard/vcard.xml
>
> But in th result, i see "TEXT" where there is newline (indentation) in the
> XML document.

  Because all characters in the content of an XML document are significatif
You may be able to interpret them as indentation space, but the parser
is not allowed to do so per the XML specification itself. 
    http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-xml#sec-white-space

 "An XML processor must always pass all characters in a document that
  are not markup through to the application."

  Your application will have to handle those.

Daniel

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