[XML-SIG] Removing insignificant whitespace

[Thomas B. Passin]

Fred L. Drake, Jr. wrote:

> On Tuesday 31 August 2004 04:33 pm, Thomas B. Passin wrote:
>  > What's wrong with normalize()?
> 
> What does normalize do about whitespace in content?  If anything, that's a 
> bug.  normalize() only deals with how adjacent nodes containing character 
> data are combined.

True.  I probably misunderstood the question.  Once you run normalize(), 
you don't have whitespace-only nodes in content anymore (unless the 
content is only whitespace, that is) - those nodes have been absorbed 
into other content nodes.

Cheers,

Tom P

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