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RE: Saxon html includes unwanted white space in anchor tag
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- Subject: RE: Saxon html includes unwanted white space in anchor tag
- From: James Robertson <jamesr at steptwo dot com dot au>
- Date: Fri, 04 Feb 2000 09:22:59 +1100
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At 03:21 4/02/2000 , Hunter, David wrote:
> > or there is
> >
> > > consider each element type individually
>
>I'm tempted to say that I like this idea better, but knowing nothing about
>how XSL processors are implemented, I'm worried that this might increase
>parsing time a lot. If that's the case, considering that XML/HTML documents
>are really meant to be read by a computer, and being human-readable is just
>an added benefit, I'd rather have quicker parsing and harder reading then
>slower parsing and pretty output. (Heck, if it's *really* messy, and I
>*needed* to read the source, I'd just declare the document as XML and view
>it in IE5 or another XML viewer, and let it format it for me.)
I remember there being a discussion on the Cocoon
mailing list about this.
I don't remember the details, but there was some
mode or other which did "pretty printing", and I
seem to recall that they ended up resorting to
element-by-element rules. I think the concensus
was, though, that it was a pretty workable solution.
You might want to have a trawl through the Cocoon
list archives (no, I don't know where they are),
or have a look at the open-source files ...
J
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