[jdom-interest] Stirring up Trouble

[Elliotte Rusty Harold]

At 9:42 AM -0700 7/19/00, Jason Hunter wrote:

>It does what the docs say it does.  Which for JDOM is trim the
>whitespace, because getMixedContent() has to follow suit and I'll be
>damned if getMixedContent() is going to return all the intermediary
>whitespace elements in its simplified form.
>

I really think JDOM is the wrong place to be making this judgement. 
Your argument is really with what XML parsers should be doing. 
However, that's a battle that needs to be fought on (and indeed may 
have already been lost on) a  different battleground, the realm of 
W3C specs. I was doing some work with XPointers today and noticed 
that white space including pure white space nodes are significant in 
XPointer as currently written. So that's just one more spec not 
handling white space properly will prevent JDOM from implementing.

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