Re: making mozilla's xml to behave in a non-standard way

Extracted from the specs:

2.10 White Space Handling

In editing XML documents, it is often convenient to use "white space" 
(spaces, tabs, and blank lines) to set apart the markup for greater 
readability. Such white space is typically not intended for inclusion in 
the delivered version of the document. On the other hand, "significant" 
white space that should be preserved in the delivered version is common, 
for example in poetry and source code.

An XML processor MUST always pass all characters in a document that are
-----------------------------------------------------------------------
not markup through to the application
-------------------------------------

looks clear


Axel Hecht wrote:
> none wrote:
>
> > Marco Milanesi wrote:
> >
> > > hi, this is a strange question I know, but I hope to get some responses:
> > >
> > >     I have a web application that I can't modify. it outputs an xml to
> > > the browser with newlines and spaces at the beginning of the xml.
> > >
> > > now the question. How can I modify this behaviour of mozilla? how can it
> > > be more tolerant to this malformed xml?
> >
> > It is not malformed. It is legal to put whites characters before the 
> > <?xml .. tag
> > It's mozilla which needs fixing, as many other buggy xml parsers.
>
> Actually, could you quote the spec? Or tell me how I quote wrong?
>
>  From XML 1.0 3rd edition:
>
>
> http://www.w3.org/TR/2004/REC-xml-20040204/#sec-well-formed
>
> [Definition: A textual object is a well-formed XML document if:]
> 1. Taken as a whole, it matches the production labeled document.
> ...
>
> http://www.w3.org/TR/2004/REC-xml-20040204/#NT-document
>
> [1]       document       ::=       prolog element Misc*
>
> http://www.w3.org/TR/2004/REC-xml-20040204/#NT-prolog
>
> [22]       prolog       ::=       XMLDecl? Misc* (doctypedecl Misc*)?
> [23]       XMLDecl       ::=       '<?xml' VersionInfo EncodingDecl? 
> SDDecl? S? '?>'
>
> As you can see, there is no whitespace in front of the XMLDecl.
>
> Axel