Line ending interpretation
Separate lines of text are often found in XML documents, and indeed in other text-based document formats. Text may be broken into lines for various reasons; either for convenience, or to signify and isolate important sub-units of information. Either way, the presence of multiple text lines can also cause complications.
Line-end codes
The points at which line-end codes appear may have been carefully chosen to avoid corrupting the text. It is possible to interpret line-end codes in three ways. The line-end code can:
be retained, and used to force a line-break when presented
be removed
be replaced by a space.
These interpretations can be illustrated with three examples:
<software>10 PRINT "Hello World"[CR] 20 GOTO 10.</software> ...Get XML Companion, The, Third Edition now with the O’Reilly learning platform.
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