[jdom-interest] PATCH: Whitespace in Element

[guru at stinky.com]

On Sat, Jun 16, 2001 at 11:59:49AM -0400, Elliotte Rusty Harold wrote:
> At 8:14 AM -0700 6/16/01, guru at stinky.com wrote:
> >Currently, Element.getTextNormalize only considers the following
> >characters to be whitespace:
> >  space, tab, \n, \r
> >
> >This breaks the Unicode and Java definitions of whitespace.  I'm not
> >sure if it breaks XML's.
> >
> 
> It doesn't. XML defines white space in Production 3 as
> 
> S ::=    (#x20 | #x9 | #xD | #xA)+

I thought so.  Thanks for looking up the spec for me.

> I agree that XML and Unicode and Java are not consistent here. I 
> think JDOM needs to fall on the XML side of the fence. Consequently I 
> suggest rejecting this change.

I agree. 

 - A

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