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@@ -104,10 +104,12 @@ by the Document. When the Document is deleted, so are all the nodes it contains.
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### White Space
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+#### Whitespace Preservation (default)
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Microsoft has an excellent article on white space: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms256097.aspx
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By default, TinyXML-2 preserves white space in a (hopefully) sane way that is almost complient with the
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-spec.(TinyXML-1 used a completely outdated model.)
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+spec. (TinyXML-1 used a completely different model, much more similar to 'collapse', below.)
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As a first step, all newlines / carriage-returns / line-feeds are normalized to a
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line-feed character, as required by the XML spec.
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@@ -136,17 +138,18 @@ valuable. TinyXML-2 sees these as the same XML:
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#### Whitespace Collapse
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-For some applications, it is preferable to collapse whitespace. TinyXML-2
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-supports this with the 'whitespace' parameter to the XMLDocument constructor.
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+For some applications, it is preferable to collapse whitespace. Collapsing
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+whitespace gives you "HTML-like" behavior, which is sometimes more suitable
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+for hand typed documents.
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+
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+TinyXML-2 supports this with the 'whitespace' parameter to the XMLDocument constructor.
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(The default is to preserve whitespace, as described above.)
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However, you may also use COLLAPSE_WHITESPACE, which will:
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- * Remove leading and trailing whitespace
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- * Convert newlines and line-feeds into a space character
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- * Collapse a run of any number of space characters into a single space character
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-
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-This can be useful for text documents stored in XML.
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+* Remove leading and trailing whitespace
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+* Convert newlines and line-feeds into a space character
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+* Collapse a run of any number of space characters into a single space character
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Note that (currently) there is a performance impact for using COLLAPSE_WHITESPACE.
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It essentially causes the XML to be parsed twice.
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