[OASIS Issue Tracker] Commented: (OFFICE-2207) Whitespaceprocessing [N 1309]

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Dennis Hamilton commented on OFFICE-2207:
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Looking at the specification for MathML, that specification and schema have their own rules for handling of white space in "token elements" and outside of "token elements."  

So it is probably important to qualify the rules in section 1.6 as applying to elements in namespaces for which the ODF specificaiton is the authority.

We should ensure this is covered for ODF 1.2 also.

> Whitespace processing [N 1309]
> ------------------------------
>
>                 Key: OFFICE-2207
>                 URL: http://tools.oasis-open.org/issues/browse/OFFICE-2207
>             Project: OASIS Open Document Format for Office Applications (OpenDocument) TC
>          Issue Type: Bug
>          Components: General
>    Affects Versions: ODF 1.0, ODF 1.0 (second edition)
>            Reporter: Robert Weir 
>            Assignee: Svante Schubert 
>             Fix For: ODF 1.0 Errata CD 5
>
>
> Submitter ID
>     GB-26300-34
> Nature of defect
>     Technical
> Document
>     ISO/IEC 26300:2006
> Clause
>     1.6
> Page
>     34
> Description of issue
> It is stated that "In conformance with the W3C XML specification [XML1.0], optional white-space characters that are contained in elements that have element content (in other words that must contain elements only but not text) are ignored".
>     * It is not clear what "optional white-space characters" are (the term is not defined in XML 1.0), or how the described behaviour conforms to XML 1.0.
>     * Does the phrase "elements that have element content" mean elements that have only element content? This cannot make sense, as whitespace is itself text content.
>     * Consider the markup <text:p><text:span>Hello</text:span> <text:span>world</text:span></text:p>. If processed according to the text above, the space between the words here would be ignored, yet no known ODF processor actually respects this provision.
> Proposal
> Reform the text to answer the above queries and modify the stated processing behaviour to accord with the existing corpus of documents and processors.

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