> Therefore XML parsing preserves white-space contents in the
> infoset instance the parsing process produces. I think this
> is desirable in plain XML parsing process, since applications
> may want to do something with white-spaces too.
I agree this would be desirable, but I don't think it's exactly what parsers
do. As I understand it, XML parsers are required to normalize line endings
(to \n), so they don't quite preserve white space in the strictest sense. I
don't even think most parsers provide an option to turn off this behavior -
it's mandated by the spec of a conformant parser, right?
-Mike Sokolov
