Re: xml/groff: comments in text=>whitespace stripped?!

[Sam Steingold <sds@gnu.org>]

> * In message <m3d6hrta2x.fsf@loiso.podval.org>
> * On the subject of "Re: Re: xml/groff: comments in text=>whitespace   stripped?!"
> * Sent on 06 Jun 2003 13:00:38 -0400
> * I write:
>
> 1. you can either remove just the leading spaces (but not NLs), or

this would work just fine.

1. apply templates
2. replace newlines with a special non-white character, e.g. NULL
3. normalize-space
4. replace [space NULL] with newline and then [NULL] with newline.

Tim, could you please consider this?

note that the current XSL/groff style sheets are broken here...

> 2. do the space normalization __before__ the lower-level processing,
>    i.e., _first_ normalize-space on the raw XML text, and only _then_
>    call apply-templates.

this is no good...

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