Re: [office] white-space processing proposal

[David Faure <faure@kde.org>]

On Monday 18 September 2006 13:59, Michael Brauer - Sun Germany - ham02 - Hamburg wrote:
> > 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.

Exactly. Compare with HTML editors - if you open an HTML page in those many
"wysiwyg html editors" that exist, you can be quite sure that most of them will
change whitespace when saving again.

I don't think that's a problem given that the whitespace is used for readability only
(so good editors should have the option of making the output readable, and in the
case of ODF, the main ones do).

-- 
David Faure, faure@kde.org, sponsored by Trolltech to work on KDE,
Konqueror (http://www.konqueror.org), and KOffice (http://www.koffice.org).