Re: Aelfred2 problem with whitespace

fixed in cvs now....even when I don't get any regression, I'm not 100%
sure it won't break anything else, give it a try.

musachy 

On Sat, 7 Aug 2004 15:47:48 +0100, Chris Burdess <[email protected]> wrote:
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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.
> - --
> Chris Burdess
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