>
> On Wed, Feb 18, 2009 at 12:59 PM, Christophe Grand
>
> <christo...@cgrand.net> wrote:
>
> > clojure.xml currently removes significant whitespaces. I guess that
> > people processing xml as data want this behavior (while people
> > processing xml as mark-up don't). What's the best way to accomodate
> > these to use cases? Through a *remove-all-whitespaces* var?
>
> > Christophe
>
> > --
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On Feb 18, 6:29 am, "Remco van 't Veer" <rwvtv...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Maybe *ignore-whitespace* is a beter name since it doesn't remove
> anything and will retain some of it.  I would prefer it to default to
> true.

It's not obvious which thing a true value for *ignore-whitespace*
does; "ignore" in the sense of pretend it in't there? Or "ignore" in
the sense of skip over it, but leave it in?

Maybe the Common Lisp convention would be more clear: *preserve-
whitespace*


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