white-space processing proposal

[Michael Brauer - Sun Germany - ham02 - Hamburg <Michael.Brauer@Sun.COM>]

Hi all,

based on our discussions, I'd like to propose the following clarification for 
section 5.1.1 White Space Characters

Change

"If the paragraph element or any of its child elements contains white-space 
characters, they are collapsed, in other words they are processed in the same 
way that [HTML4] processes them. The following [UNICODE] characters are 
normalized to a SPACE character:"

to

"If the paragraph element or any of its child elements contains white-space 
characters, they are collapsed. Leading white-space characters at the 
pragraph start as well as trailing white-space characters at the paragraph 
end are ignored. The following [UNICODE] characters are normalized to a SPACE 
character:"

Behind the paragraph starting

"In addition, these characters are ignored if the preceding character is a 
white-space character."

add

"White-space characters at the start or end of the paragraph are ignored, 
regardless whether they are contained in the paragraph element itself, or in 
a child element in which white-space characters are collapsed as described 
above.

These white-space processing rules shall enable authors to use white-space 
characters to improve the readability of the XML source of an OpenDocument 
document in the same way as they can use them in [HTML4]."

Best regards

Michael