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Subject: RE: [office-comment] Public Comment


 

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Sent: Monday, May 24, 2004 3:54 PM
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Subject: [office-comment] Public Comment

Comment from: elharo@metalab.unc.edu

I'm not sure what the current status of the OpenOffice format draft is.
I.e. is it final or not? However, I did find a clear mistake in it
that's worth an erratum if it is final, and perhaps some rethinking if
it isn't.



Section 1.6 states:



The W3C XML specification [XML1.0]requires that white-space characters
are ignored for elements that have element content, in other words that
contain elements but not text. 



In fact, the XML 1.0 specification requires no such thing. In fact, it
requires exactly the opposite:



An XML processor MUST always pass all characters in a document that are
not markup through to the application. A  validating XML processor MUST
also inform the application which of these characters constitute white
space appearing in element content.



An application such as OpenOffice is under no obligation to ignore this
white space. It may do so if it chooses. However, the XML spec does not
use the word "ignore" here. That's something that snuck in through SAX.



I am just beginning to read the spec, and I am not sure what effect this
incorrect belief may have had on the design of the appplication.
Possibly it's minor. Possibly it's not. However, the claim that the XML
specification requires this, is simply wrong and should be removed from
the OpenOffice spec. 

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