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Your Text: Insert Slimies » Insert UBB Code » Close Last Tag \| All Tags UBB Help	Don't confuse a "flat" structure with stripping white space. The former is a design issue and is worthy of some considerable planning to make things as painless as possible later. The latter simply tries to make the file size smaller by eliminating "unnecessary" characters. Unnecessary for computers that is. One of the charms of xml is its "human readable" nature. You can skim an xml file - it makes sense. Stripping the white space may make a small performance improvement, but at the expense of readibility. If you're having a script write the xml, maybe readability isn't an issue. If you chose to retain the white space for human readability, Flash can easily strip the whitespace by setting the ignoreWhite property to true (this is important - otherwise white space is considered a node and you'll get ALL screwed up when you try to parse the data!). Whatever. Just don't confuse structure with whitespace. Loading...
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