Re: [xml] DTD validation & whitespace removal

[Daniel Veillard <veillard redhat com>]

On Thu, Feb 04, 2010 at 08:53:42AM -0500, Piotr Sipika wrote:
> John,
> Try parsing the document using:
> xmlReadFile(URI, encoding, options)
> with options set to XML_PARSE_NOBLANKS (in addition to anything else
> you want to use)

  Honnestly, I think it's a bad advice in general. The blank nodes
used for "formatting" are an integral part of the XML document content
and users should rather learn XML and do the right thing than tweak the
parser to become non conformant.

Daniel

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