Re: [Vtd-xml-users] mixed content?

[Tatu S. <cow...@ya...>]

--- Jimmy Zhang <cra...@co...> wrote:

> Interesting comments...
> 
> A few years back when I posted to new groups about
> an XML question,
> I was told not to use mixed-content.... but wasn't
> offered any reasons for
> that...

I think more accurate guideline would be to say that
mixed content is good for textual markup (XHTML,
DocBook), but problematic for data-oriented approach.

Since VTD-XML is more geared towards latter, it
probably won't be a problem that white space is by
default skipped.

I don't think mixed content is bad per se, just good
for specific things.

> how big a difference it makes to ignore the
> unimportant whitespaces
> for the purpose of schema validation???

I think it should never cause problems, actually...
white space handling is bit murky area of xml specs,
but I think that it is actually safe to ignore
all-whitespace segments between (start/end) tags, when
doing schema validation.

It could change displaying of XHTML, and so on, but
with schema (or DTD. RelaxNG), I don't think there are
any constructs that would consider white space
significant.

-+ Tatu +-



 
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