- From: Tavmjong via GitHub <sysbot+gh@w3.org>
- Date: Wed, 01 Nov 2017 12:35:42 +0000
- To: public-svg-issues@w3.org
Tavmjong has just created a new issue for https://github.com/w3c/svgwg: == White-space only text nodes. == Relevant links: https://www.w3.org/TR/SVG2/struct.html#XMLSpaceAttribute https://www.w3.org/TR/SVG2/text.html#WhiteSpaceProperty The attribute xml:space is used to control white space in SVG 1.1 inside <text> elements. As this is an XML attribute, it presumably must also follow XML rules for handling white-space only text nodes (different from text elements) which dictate that a value of "default" results in the removal of text nodes that only contain white space: `<text><tspan>A</tspan> <tspan>B</tspan></text> => AB` `<text><tspan>A</tspan> B <tspan>C</tspan></text> => A B C` This behavior is not clearly defined in either the SVG 1.1 or SVG 2 specs and neither Firefox nor Chrome seem to follow this. Inkscape has followed this behavior (except due to a bug, now fixed, introduced by a change in the libxml2 library). If this interpretation is wrong, then text should be added to the spec to make it clearer. Note XHTML2 sets xml:space to preserve for all elements. PS. It's a real pain that we can't attach SVG files! Please view or discuss this issue at https://github.com/w3c/svgwg/issues/352 using your GitHub account
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