[Adium-devl] O'Reilly XML blog article: Parsing XML… backwards?

[Colin Barrett]

On Mar 16, 2007, at 7:08 PM, Peter Hosey wrote:

> On Mar 16, 2007, at 18:45:47, Jeffrey Melloy wrote:
>> Tim Bray doesn't give a shit:
>> http://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/200x/2007/03/14/Tab-Sweep
>>
>> His XML street cred is that he invented it.
>
> I've seen it. It came up in my referer logs. :)
>
> All he wants is to have one message per line. He doesn't seem to  
> have any objection to (or indeed, any comment on) the idea of the  
> parser itself.

Originally messages weren't on separate lines, because XML (unlike  
HTML) is sensitive to whitespace. I think this got changed somewhere  
along the way, and if Tim "XML" Bray says it's fine, then it's fine.

I probably should figure out exactly where the newlines are getting  
inserted though. They don't seem to be getting added after <chat>,  
just after individual sub-elements.

-Colin