Re: [basex-talk] whitespace around comments

On Fri, 2013-04-05 at 11:15 +0200, Michael Piotrowski wrote:

On 2013-04-05, Michael Seiferle ms@basex.org wrote: chopping certainly *does* change the semantics--that's precisely why I've argued before that it shouldn't be on by default.

Agreed, but Christian has already said it will be off by default in the next release.

I have seen a commercial SGML formatter that had a similar behaviour used for aircraft manuals, where there was actually a possibility of lives lost and unlimited civil damage liability as a result of numbers run together, but I failed to get the people in charge to understand why it made a difference.

(and BaseX doesn't honor xml:space either).

The latest snapshot does.

Liam