If you are validating against a DTD, and IF the enclosing element does not have mixed content, look at the SAX/DOM defiinitions of "ignorable whitespace" and how to handle it. (The term is unfortunately; it's better described as "whitespace in element-only content")
If you are not validating the document, the parser can not make this distinction and you must do so in your application code. ______________________________________ "You build world of steel and stone I build worlds of words alone Skilled tradespeople, long years taught: You shape matter; I shape thought." (http://www.songworm.com/lyrics/songworm-parody/ShapesofShadow.html) From: Albretch Mueller <lbrt...@gmail.com> To: j-users@xerces.apache.org Date: 07/11/2011 06:13 PM Subject: dismissing characters such as carriage returns and spaces after an ending and before an starting tag ... ~ I am XMLRead[er|ing] an XML file (which I am validating using the specified schema) that looks like this: ~ <mediawiki xmlns="http://www.mediawiki.org/xml/export-0.5/"; xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"; xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.mediawiki.org/xml/export-0.5/ http://www.mediawiki.org/xml/export-0.5.xsd"; version="0.5" xml:lang="en"> <siteinfo> <sitename>Wikipedia</sitename> <base>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page</base> <generator>MediaWiki 1.17wmf1</generator> <case>first-letter</case> <namespaces> <namespace key="-2" case="first-letter">Media</namespace> <namespace key="109" case="first-letter">Book talk</namespace> </namespaces> </siteinfo> </mediawiki> ~ What do you do in order for the ContentHandler not to report as "characters" such character sequences after an ending and before an starting tag? ~ Than you lbrtchx --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: j-users-unsubscr...@xerces.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: j-users-h...@xerces.apache.org
