Comments on: Load HTML from XML source – Part I http://karoshiethos.com/2009/01/23/load-html-from-xml-source/ Navigating the treacherous waters of interactive technology Wed, 4 Aug 2010 08:56:23 -0400 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: jon http://karoshiethos.com/2009/01/23/load-html-from-xml-source/comment-page-1/#comment-66 jon Fri, 23 Jan 2009 20:22:41 +0000 http://karoshiethos.com/?p=188#comment-66 Mmm. Technically, I guess this does *not* strip additional newlines -- it merely keeps the pretty-printing mechanism from adding even *more* additional whitespace.  <div> </div> <div>If this was targeted at Flash-only, it wouldn't be that big a deal -- it's actually pretty nice to be able to format whitespace directly in the XML without CDATA etc. But, we'll eventually use PHP to read this XML and output HTML pages, so it's important to anticipate how the browser will behave and try to match that.</div> <div> </div> <div>Look for the next update -- I'll include newline stripping there.</div> Mmm. Technically, I guess this does *not* strip additional newlines — it merely keeps the pretty-printing mechanism from adding even *more* additional whitespace. 

If this was targeted at Flash-only, it wouldn’t be that big a deal — it’s actually pretty nice to be able to format whitespace directly in the XML without CDATA etc. But, we’ll eventually use PHP to read this XML and output HTML pages, so it’s important to anticipate how the browser will behave and try to match that.
Look for the next update — I’ll include newline stripping there.
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