Skipping spaces between tags?

[Stefano]

Hi All,
as per the specs, should a XML parser skip spaces between <tag> and
</tag> (example: <data> this is the text </data> => trimmed 'this is
the text') ?

Thanks in advance

Stefano

 

[Richard Tobin]

as per the specs, should a XML parser skip spaces between <tag> and
</tag> (example: <data> this is the text </data> => trimmed 'this is
the text') ?

No. As the spec says in 2.10:

An XML processor must always pass all characters in a document that
are not markup through to the application.

An *application* can do what it likes, but a conformant XML parser
must not remove the spaces.

-- Richard