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Processing XML with Java™: A Guide to SAX, DOM, JDOM, JAXP, and TrAX
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Processing XML with Java™: A Guide to SAX, DOM, JDOM, JAXP, and TrAX

by Elliotte Rusty Harold
November 2002
Intermediate to advanced
1120 pages
21h 2m
English
Addison-Wesley Professional
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“Ignorable White Space”

One of the more obscure parts of the XML 1.0 specification is the perhaps misleadingly named “ignorable white space.” This is white space that occurs between tags in places where the DTD does not allow mixed content. Consider the XML-RPC document in Example 6.13.

Example 6.13. A Document That Uses Ignorable White Space to Prettify the XML
<?xml version="1.0"?>
<!DOCTYPE methodCall [
  <!ELEMENT methodCall (methodName, params)>
  <!ELEMENT params (param+)>
  <!ELEMENT param (value)>
  <!ELEMENT value (string)>
  <!ELEMENT methodName (#PCDATA)>
  <!ELEMENT string (#PCDATA)>
]>
<methodCall>
  <methodName>lookupSymbol</methodName>
  <params>
    <param>
      <value>
        <string>
          Red Hat
        </string>
      </value>
    </param>
  </params>
</methodCall>

This example ...

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