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Subject: Re: [office] white-space processing proposal
Dave Pawson wrote: > Thanks Michael. > Couple of additional comments inline. > > > > > So the visual presentation may not match that of a person > accessing the xml content directly? The content.xml may contain sequences of white-space characters where only one is displayed, but that's the same as in HTML. I therefore don't think that's an issue. > > > So a round trip contents.xml, into OpenOffice and back to xml without > modification (by the user) may change the xml. Yes. The same applies to KOffice, IBM Workplace, Sun StarOffice, etc. > > > I think the point I'm taking away, which I don't like, is that any ODF > implementation > can modify the whitespace of an XML entity whether I want it or not. Yes, that's true. > Yet that is quite different to this case? Again you appear to be > talking about an application. > Are all HTML applications alike in their whitespace processing? > None of the browsers I use modify the source file. A browser displays the file only. I would also not expect that an application that displays ODF modifies the source. >> >> > Is there any conflict with the HTML4 that could cause a dispute? >> >> I don't think so, but if we write "HTML" instead of "[HTML4]" we >> should be on >> the safe side. > > > Visually? I don't think this either clear or 'safe'. Well, I think what's essential is that authors understand that they can make use of white-spaces in ODF the same way as in HTML without analyzing the rules. Any suggestion how to phrase that in better words is welcome. > >> > >> > Why is this only applicable to a paragraph element, and not to list >> > content, >> > table cells etc? I.e. all CDATA content. >> >> List and table cells contain paragraphs, so the rules apply there as >> well. > > > So should it be generalised to all CDATA content to clarify? I don't think so. The rules only apply to text content, and text content always is included in paragraphs. Michael
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