Re: [xml] shouldn't xmlNodeDumpOutputInternal obey xml:space="preserve"?

[Chris Ryland <cpr emsoftware com>]

I've got one, in a publishing application where spaces really DO matter.

And you'd think you'd find the same need in any word processing app 
that saved as XML.

And this change wouldn't break anything else--it would only cover a new 
case.

On Sunday, June 1, 2003, at 06:59  PM, Daniel Veillard wrote:

> On Sun, Jun 01, 2003 at 04:43:08PM -0400, Chris Ryland wrote:
> > Shouldn't the code, where it scans the children for TEXT or ENTITY 
> > node
> > (when format == 1), also check that xml:space="preserve" isn't in
> > effect for the current node and disable formatting if it is?
> >
> > At least that's how I read it--it would give you the best of both
> > worlds: formatting except where space preservation is marked as
> > critical.
>
>   I have yet to see a real XML instance (i.e. outside of testsuite) 
> with
> any xml:space set ... I don't think we can rely on this in practice...
>
> Daniel
>
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