Re: [xml] xmlKeepBlanksDefault() behavior

[Daniel Veillard <veillard redhat com>]

On Fri, May 16, 2003 at 02:31:09PM +0200, Christophe de VIENNE wrote:
> I saw in the mailing-list archive that xmlIndentTreeOutput is considered as a 
> 'remain from the past', so it has been set to 1 by default.
> The message I'm refering to is
> http://mail.gnome.org/archives/xml/2002-May/msg00176.html
>
> If what this mail says is still right, I'd suggest to let is set to 1 all the 
> time, since we can't remove it without breaking the API.
> This way the behavior of xmlKeepBlanksDefault(xmlKeepBlanksDefault(0)) would 
> be more logical, and the format parameter of output function more easy to 
> use.

  What is the problem in practice. Why would changing this "improve" the
library ? I need a rationale based on a concrete case before deciding
to change something at that level, people may have built expectation
on the existing behaviour and I really need to be convinced before
changing something so core to libxml2 and libxslt processing.

Daniel

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