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RE: Welcome comments: White spaces in HTML pages from XSLT
- From: "Julian Reschke" <julian dot reschke at gmx dot de>
- To: <xsl-list at lists dot mulberrytech dot com>
- Date: Fri, 7 Dec 2001 15:17:06 +0100
- Subject: RE: [xsl] Welcome comments: White spaces in HTML pages from XSLT
- Reply-to: xsl-list at lists dot mulberrytech dot com
OK.
The DOM API doesn't have an interface that would allow me to represent the
information that " ", when being serialized, should not be escaped. So
to do it, an XSLT engine would need access to specific extensions of a
particular implementation.
Julian
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> [mailto:owner-xsl-list@lists.mulberrytech.com]On Behalf Of Daniel
> Veillard
> Sent: Friday, December 07, 2001 3:07 PM
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> Subject: Re: [xsl] Welcome comments: White spaces in HTML pages from
> XSLT
>
>
> On Fri, Dec 07, 2001 at 11:09:47AM +0100, Julian Reschke wrote:
> > > Hum, with the exception of libxslt then, because that
> > > information is kept
> > > in the tree produced by the transformation.
> >
> > In which case it's not strictly a DOM tree, right?
>
> Right, but it's always the case ...
> DOM is an API, there is no definition of the way the tree itself
> has to be represented. Actually "a DOM tree" has no meaning, you have
> an XML "tree" or Infosets and an API to access them.
>
> Daniel
>
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