Re: Aelfred2 problem with whitespace

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Musachy Barroso wrote:
>> For instance, if I parse the following document:
>>     <root>&lt;head&gt; &amp; &lt;body&gt;</root>
>> the spaces before and after the "&amp;" are lost!!
>
> I checked it out, the thing is that the spaces are getting reported as
> ignorableWhitespace.
>
> I got this from the SAX faq (http://www.saxproject.org/?selected=faq):
>
> The ContentHandler.characters() callback is missing data!
>
>     Please read the JavaDoc for this method. A parser may split text
> into any number of separate chunks, and some characters may be
> reported using ignorableWhitespace() instead of this callback.
>
>     If you want all the text inside an element, you need to collect
> the text from the various characters callbacks into a buffer. Only
> when you see the endElement event can you be sure that you have seen
> all the text, and some of it may really "belong" to child elements.

However, this whitespace is clearly NOT ignorable! We should only 
report whitespace via the ignorableWhitespace callback if there are no 
text children of the element, or exceptionally in the case of a mixed 
content model where there is no text between elements (since it may be 
too computationally expensive otherwise).

I'd like to consider this a bug.
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Chris Burdess
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