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XalanC output format is not suitable as a document entity

           Summary: XalanC output format is not suitable as a document
                    entity
           Product: XalanC
           Version: CurrentCVS
          Platform: Other
        OS/Version: Other
            Status: NEW
          Severity: Normal
          Priority: Other
         Component: XalanC
        AssignedTo: xalan-dev@xml.apache.org
        ReportedBy: june@ca.ibm.com


Sorry about the bad 'summary'.  I'm not sure how to describe this one.  I was 
experimenting with Xalan-J a while back and noticed that output from the java 
processor was serialized (no line feed characters) while the C++ processor was 
not.  It led me to the following response from the java team:

---- NOTE -----

the difference is significant when the document is used as an external general 
parsed entity.  If I refer to the transformed document using an entity 
reference in the following document (apologies for bugs in syntax)

<!DOCTYPE doc [
  <!ENTITY trans SYSTEM "transformed-output.xml">
]>
<doc>abc&trans;def</doc>

then the resulting XML with an extra line-feed is equivalent to the following:

<doc>abc
<out>1</out></doc>

but without the line-feed, it's equivalent to this:

<doc>abc<out>1</out></doc>

     Emitting the extra line-feed could distort the meaning.  It would be 
permissible to emit the extra line-feed if either the doctype-system attribute 
was specified on xsl:output or the standalone attribute was specified with the 
value "yes", because in those cases, we must be producing a document entity.

---- END NOTE ----

In short, the no-line-feed output is for conformance reasons.  The C++ 
processor should behave the same.

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