[XML-SIG] DOM: Whitespace, and subclassing

Jack Jansen Jack.Jansen@cwi.nl
Wed, 21 Oct 1998 11:17:08 +0200


> 	Question 1: Does such a lose-the-whitespace method seem
> generally useful enough to be added to the package?

I would prefer a wrapper around dom that simply wouldn't return the 
whitespace, in stead of actually stripping it (what it would do with inserts, 
whether they'd be placed before are after non-returned-whitespace, is open to 
discussion).

If this is the idiom of choice then a program that reads an xml document, 
modifies it and writes it out again will probably leave comments and the 
majority of formatting intact.
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