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Re: Fwd: white space in MSIE

2002-12-02 14:25:46
Hi David and everyone,

At 02:52 PM 12/2/2002, you wrote:
> Can someone confirm that what is being described stems from a bug in MSXML?
> I'm recalling something about it but I'm not sure of the details....

it depends how you define "bug"
it's a dcumented and frustrating incompatibility.

If you call msxml via script you can set a preservewhitespace flag to
turn off this behaviour, but if you directly pass the file to IE it
calls msxml with this flag helpfully set to be incompatible.

putting xml:space="preserve" at the top of your input file
turns this off.

Ah, good tip. (Rather abuses the intended semantics of xml:space, I think, particularly if it has to be at the *top* of the input. But I can try a couple of things now.)

Dion asked about Rafal's stylesheet. Nope, sorry, don't have one.

I'll bang on this a bit. Thanks to all.

Cheers,
Wendell


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