On Fri, 2013-04-05 at 11:15 +0200, Michael Piotrowski wrote:
On 2013-04-05, Michael Seiferle <ms@basex.org> wrote: chopping certainly *does* change the semantics--that's precisely why I've argued before that it shouldn't be on by default.
Agreed, but Christian has already said it will be off by default in the next release. I have seen a commercial SGML formatter that had a similar behaviour used for aircraft manuals, where there was actually a possibility of lives lost and unlimited civil damage liability as a result of numbers run together, but I failed to get the people in charge to understand why it made a difference.
(and BaseX doesn't honor xml:space either). The latest snapshot does.
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