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Wednesday February 07, 2007

04:47 PM

[ #32340 ]

I'm swatting deficiencies (they're not bugs, but hey) in XML::Tiny and I found something interesting in the XML spec. It says:

"significant" white space that should be preserved in the delivered version is common, for example in poetry and source code.

This is quite odd, as the w3c is otherwise keen on seperating markup from presentation.

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Whitespace isn't always presentation (Score:1)

by DAxelrod (4649)

Whitespace isn't solely presentational. For example, you'd want to preserve whitespace for a Python program, or a string literal.