Re: [xml] Preserve Whitespace in Attribute List

[Daniel Veillard <veillard redhat com>]

On Wed, May 02, 2007 at 02:29:22PM -0400, Dan Ryan wrote:
> Is it possible to preserve whitespace in an attribute list?
> In the example below their are 2 attribute name/value pairs,
> each appearing on separate lines.
> <team>
>  <name>Syracuse</name>
>  <coaches  head="Boehiem"
>            assist="Fine"/>
> </team>

  No, that's not part of the XML information set.
    http://www.w3.org/TR/xml-infoset/
even the order of attributes is not part of it, though libxml2
tries to preserve it.
I don't know any parser API which would preserve that information.

Daniel

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