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

 

[Faehndrich Philippe]

On 7 Aug 2003 06:31:30 -0700
(Stefano) wrote:

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

If you *need* to have the spaces trimmed, you can use the "normalize-space" XPath function.

Philippe Faehndrich