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Subject: Re: xml/ada dropping data when pre-defined entities are separated by
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Date: Mon, 31 Jan 2011 12:17:02 -0800 (PST)
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On 31 Jan, 15:56, Emmanuel Briot <briot.emman...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > I was just going to ask what makes xml/ada decide why a textnode is
> > sometimes split into several nodes. I see the pattern now, of course,
> > 'split on predefined entity' but why?
>
> Because XML/Ada tries to be as efficient as possible, and normalizing
> the document takes time that a lot of application have no need for. If
> indeed your application is only able to deal with normalized document
> (it really shouldn't, the XML standard is quite clear that a document
> is not necessarily normalized), then indeed you should call Normalize.

ok. Thanks for the info. This part of xml i did not know; but i see
the need for splitting
Into chunks, but i thought that was most of concern for big
textnodes.
Never take anything for granted iss the lesson learned.
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