Why is use of   required sometimes but not others

...in XML documents

[mgm_03]

I found that my xml doc would only validate when I used a   for all white spaces.

However, I've seen other xml files that do have white space between words.

Can someone explain why the difference?

[macrost]

mgm_03,
So when you validate your xml doc, any whitespace needs to have the  ? I have never ran into that problem, only when using a stylesheet, and I can't use   unless I declare it with an inline dtd.

[mgm_03]

thanks for the reply. i think i found the answer by including the encoding ='iso-8859-01"....now I don't need to worry about whitespaces.