another newbie question...

[JustSomeGuy]

Is there a difference between these two xml statments?

<stuff>1</stuff>
vs
<stuff>
1
</stuff>

Is there something in the standard that specifies that the data parsers
should stip leading and trailing white space?
Just curious because i'm using the later of the two examples and it seems
like my xml is being rejected and I was
wondering if it was simply the white space around the '1'.

TIA

 

[Peter Flynn]

Is there a difference between these two xml statments?

<stuff>1</stuff>
vs
<stuff>
1
</stuff>

Yes. In the first one, the stuff element contains a single digit 1.
In the second, it contains a linebreak, two spaces, a 1, and another
linebreak.

If you are outputting this to a browser, the leading and trailing
linebreaks and spaces are probably absorbed and disappear. But if
you are doing anything else with it, they remain there and need to
be dealt with by your application.

Is there something in the standard that specifies that the data parsers
should strip leading and trailing white space?

Yes, it specifies that they should NOT strip white-space, but instead
pass it through to the application to deal with.

Just curious because i'm using the later of the two examples and it seems
like my xml is being rejected and I was
wondering if it was simply the white space around the '1'.

Quite possibly, but without knowing details of the application and the
software it's not possible to give an exact answer.

///Peter