Re: [xml] How to disable Attribute value normalization

[Mike Lei <mike lei sun com>]

Daniel Veillard wrote:
> On Fri, Sep 06, 2002 at 09:16:17AM +0800, Mike Lei wrote:
> > Hi,
> > I want to keep all content of attribute value untouched so that my
> > application can interpret it other way . How can I do that ? it seems
> > xmlBlanksDefaut(1) only work for content of element node . If I retrieve
> > the attribute value by xmlGetProp, I get the normalized result . How can
> > I get the raw information ?
> >   
>
>   Well, you can't ... The XML specification is quite clear:
>
>   http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-xml#AVNormalize
>
> "Before the value of an attribute is passed to the application or checked
>  for validity, the XML processor must normalize the attribute value by
>  applying the algorithm below, or by using some other method such that
>  the value passed to the application is the same as that produced by
>  the algorithm."
>
>  It's a MUST, not subject to user option.
Thank you ! I know it.  But if element content can avoid normalizing,  why
attribute value cannot ?  It seems unreasonable and not symmetric.  In some
case , it's better if element content is used as attribute value or vice
verse without any data loss.

Regards,
Mike

>   What it probably means is that you decided to put in attribute text
> which should really go into element content, because all compliant XML
> parser will have to do the exact same modification of the character string
> before passing it to the application.
>
> Daniel