Re: [xml] Preserving space when adding and deleting XML Nodes

[Daniel Veillard <veillard redhat com>]

On Wed, Feb 01, 2006 at 11:19:22AM -0800, Vedantam, Pavan wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I followed up previous
> posts(http://mail.gnome.org/archives/xml/2005-September/msg00094.html),
> and it seems the whitespace that is left when you delete a Node in the
> xml file must be handled via code, my question is, how do you know that
> it is an empty text node and then delete it.

  Precisely, you can't at the pure XML level. Only the application can
know if this is significant or not, and this is why all white spaces 
are preserved by the parser and toolkit by default.

Daniel

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