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

none wrote:
> 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

Yes. And if you have whitespace before the <?xml..., then the character 
data as whole doesn't match the document production, and is thus not a 
document. So the quote above comes long time after the initial 
whitespace problem.

Axel

> 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