Re: [docbook] Re: whitespace at the beginning and the end of element content

[Wolfgang Jeltsch <wolfgang@jeltsch.net>]

Am Sonntag, 31. Oktober 2004 19:44 schrieb Norman Walsh:
> [...]

> > And even if I format the paragraph without whitespace after the start tag
> > and before the end tag, how can I be sure that linebreaks and the spaces
> > used for indenting don't appear in the output?
>
> I don't know of any processing system that doesn't treat a newline like
> a space (outside of verbatim environments, etc.) so they're ok. The indents
> are going to be in your content.

Do you really mean that you cannot use indentation in XML code???  If this is 
true then it is not possible to write clear XML code, and I wonder how people 
should be able to edit XML documents with a text editor.

> [...]

>                                         Be seeing you,
>                                           norm

Wolfgang