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Effective XML: 50 Specific Ways to Improve Your XML
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Effective XML: 50 Specific Ways to Improve Your XML

by Elliotte Rusty Harold
September 2003
Intermediate to advanced
336 pages
7h 20m
English
Addison-Wesley Professional
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White Space in Attributes

The final and trickiest case are attribute values. Depending on attribute type, the parser normalizes attribute values before reporting them to the client application. First it converts all tabs, carriage returns, and line feeds to one space each. This is done for all attributes. Next, if the attribute has a declared type and that type is anything other than CDATA, the parser also condenses all runs of space to a single space and finally trims all leading and trailing white space from the value. However, the parser does not perform this second step for attributes that have type CDATA or are undeclared.

For example, consider the following document. The parser will trim the leading and trailing white space from the year ...

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