[XML-SIG] sax and entities

[Uche Ogbuji]

> If you really want to have it as an ' ' in your output XML rather
> than as an NBSP character you should do something like
> 
>   string.replace(text, "\240", " ")
> 
> when you write the DOM tree out.  Exactly how to do this will depend
> on your DOM implementation.
> 
> 
> I think it would make very good sense, BTW, for the DOM serializers to
> provide some mechanism for doing escapings of this kind when
> serializing the DOM.  It might be that you pass a dictionary like
> 
>   {"\240" : " "}
> 
> or perhaps a function. What say ye, DOM implementors?

4DOM and 4XSLT already automatically do this for HTML output.


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