Re: [office] white-space processing proposal

["Dave Pawson" <dave.pawson@gmail.com>]

On 18/09/06, David Faure <faure@kde.org> wrote:

> > White space is significant in XML
> Not in ODF, except where it is specified to be, that's the point.

WHich is significant. Says to me that ODF
is not an XML app, despite what Michael says.


> > I don't think the spec should support an implementation
> > playing around with the base XML.
> It always did, and it always will - where whitespace isn't significant,
> like in the above example. The change we are discussing is only a corner
> case of it all: space at the beginning and end of <text:p>.

Corner case for you perhaps.
For those interested in ODF as an XML format?
No.





Dave Pawson
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