RE: merge mode for XML

[Noel Yap]

--- "Greg A. Woods" <address@hidden> wrote:
> [ On Monday, April 29, 2002 at 13:25:48 (-0700),
> Noel Yap wrote: ]
> > Subject: RE: merge mode for XML
> >
> > In theory, this is easy to do, but in practice I
> have
> > seen browsers act differently due to whitespace
> that
> > really shouldn't affect the rendering.  IIRC,
> > "<table><tr>" worked differently from
> "<table>\n<tr>"
> > on at least one browser.
> 
> I don't know of any browsers that parse XML -- you
> seem to be talking
> about HTML.

I apologize for truncating the portion of the post you
had responded to.  Here it is as a reminder so that
you can take my post in its intended context:
> >Doesn't everyone format their XML like that?  I.e.
like HTML so that
> >tags are on their own lines and there are extra
blank lines (that 
won't
> >be treated as data) between groups of items and
even between items 
too?

> In any case who the heck cares about a broken HTML
> parser in some random
> browser (even if it is a commonly used version of
> M$-Exploder)?!?!?!?

Actually, I believe it was the other commonly used
browser.

> If your users can't use standards-compliant browsers
> then get new users!  :-)

In any case, those of us who program as a service to
the greater community have to deal with broken
software no matter how much we hate it.  Greg, which
corporation did you say you worked in again?  In what
industry?

Noel

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