Bruce Elrick wrote:
> The XML standard states that all whitespace *between* tags, including
> line feeds, is to be preserved by the parser. It is up to the
> application to decide what to do. If your xml viewer is collapsing
> spaces then it is not following the standard
> I'm not sure what the standard says about spaces in tags, but I think
> that can be changed without changing the semantic meaning of the XML.
> So
> <path
> action=">
> can be changed to <path action="A"> because the carriage return is *in*
> the tag, but
> <sometag>
> Contents of the
> tag
> </sometag>
> Is such that the string representing the contents of the tag would be
> "\n Contents of the\n tag\n"
> The application could then choose to manipulate the string. The initial
> line feed comes as a suprise to some people.
> Cheers...
> Bruce
if this is true, then the svn --xml output is REALLY broken because
<msg>* branches/issue-531-dev/subversion: Merged -r2699:2702 changes
from /trunk/subversion.
* subversion/libsvn_fs/reps-strings.c (APR_ARRAY_IDX):
Remove duplicate definition.
</msg>
would turn into somewhing like "\r\r\n" at least on Windows.
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Received on Sun Apr 4 01:44:52 2004