Lloyd Dupont wrote:

> I am "defining" an XML schema.
> In fact I'm not really writing any schema but I am writing an XML writer and
> reader for my data.
> It's all custom XML and I would like it to be XML tool friendly.
>
> I will have an element, lets call it <text/> which will be in the document
> in great quantity and it should always have:
> xml:space="preserve"
> on.
>
> Now, for the sake of clarity and being compact, I would like to omit this
> declaration on every <text> tag, but somehow let it be know (without
> downloading the unexistant so far XMLNS file).

"Martin Honnen" <mahotrash@yahoo.de> wrote in message
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>
>
> Lloyd Dupont wrote:
>
>> I am "defining" an XML schema.
>> In fact I'm not really writing any schema but I am writing an XML writer
>> and reader for my data.
>> It's all custom XML and I would like it to be XML tool friendly.
>>
>> I will have an element, lets call it <text/> which will be in the
>> document in great quantity and it should always have:
>> xml:space="preserve"
>> on.
>>
>> Now, for the sake of clarity and being compact, I would like to omit this
>> declaration on every <text> tag, but somehow let it be know (without
>> downloading the unexistant so far XMLNS file).
>
> You would need a schema or DTD that defines that attribute value as fixed
> for that text element. Then you need to make sure the XML parser(s) used
> to process the XML support schema or DTD processing and have it enabled
> when the XML is parsed (for instance with .NET 2.0 DTD processing is
> disabled by default).
>
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>
> Martin Honnen --- MVP XML
> http://JavaScript.FAQTs.com/